Florida paper hires Lora to cover growth and development

Maya Lora

The Lakeland Ledger has hired Maya Lora to cover growth and development.

She started Monday at the central Florida newspaper.

Lora has interned at the Miami Herald for the past two summers, first as a business reporter and then as a local government reporter.

She is a graduate of Washington & Lee University in journalism and English. While in school, she was editor in chief of the student newspaper Ring-tum Phi.

Lora also interned at The Hill in 2018.

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.