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Free Press auto reporter Grzelewski focused on the future of vehicles

Jordyn Grzelewski

Detroit Free Press business reporter Jordyn Grzelewski, who covers Ford Motor Co., spoke with Bianchi Public Relations about her job.

Here is an excerpt:

Can you tell us what types of stories, trends or issues are on your radar now?

We are very much focused on the future of the auto industry, and how trends such as electrification and autonomous driving will reshape the industry. The industry is undergoing one of its most significant evolutions in history, so we are producing lots of coverage about what that means in terms of new vehicles, investments, and profits, but also how this transition stands to affect consumers as well as the workers and communities that power the industry.

Describe the craziest or most fun story you have written.

It’s always fun to cover an event that you know won’t come around every day. Some of the most fun I’ve had as a reporter has involved traveling to Washington, D.C. with a plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that led to the legalization of same-sex marriage, spending a week in Taiwan with a group of journalists from around the world for a feature story, and covering two presidential visits to auto plants in Michigan in the last year.

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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.

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