Food and farm biz reporter Soderlin leaves Omaha daily

Barbara Soderlin

Omaha World-Herald business reporter Barbara Soderlin has left the paper for a job at the University of Nebraska.

Soderlin is now director of development at the University of Nebraska Foundation.

She spent nearly six years at the World-Herald, covering food and farming from the field to the supermarket, including ConAgra Foods, Omaha Steaks, Hy-Vee, the beef industry and agribusiness topics.

“I’m looking forward to learning new things and using what I learned as an agribusiness reporter to benefit the University of Nebraska,” said Sodelin in a message.

Before that, she was a night editor and a business reporter at the Rapid City Journal.

Soderlin also worked at the Casper Star-Tribune and Lincoln Journal-Star. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and a master’s degree from South Dakota State.

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.