Fort Lauderdale biz news reporter Satchell is laid off

Arlene Satchell

Arlene Satchell, a business reporter at The (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel for the past 10 years, was laid off on Thursday.

Satchell covered the airline, cruise line, tourism and hotel industries.

On LinkedIn, Satchell wrote:

I was laid off along with some other colleagues as part of “major reorganization,” I was told. So needless to say I’m now job hunting, so keep me in mind.

Satchell is a University of Miami graduate who switched careers. She previously worked in the hospitality industry.

She previously covered the retail and marine industry beats and was a travel blog contributor.

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.