Erdody departing Indianapolis Biz Journal for WFYI

Lindsey Erdody

Lindsey Erdody, a reporter at the Indianapolis Business Journal, is departing the news organization on Friday.

She is becoming the health and education digital editor for WFYI, an NPR station in Indianapolis.

She joined the Business Journal in 2015 to tackle the “North of 96th” beat, covering the new and ongoing developments in the fastest growing part of Indiana. Most recently, she has been covering state politics, government and philanthropy.

Since graduating from the Indiana University School of Journalism in May 2012, Erdody has spent time at The Arizona Republic in Phoenix, The State Journal in Frankfort, Kentucky and The Herald-Times in Bloomington.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.