Growth and economic issues reporter leaving Asheville daily

Dillon Davis

Dillon Davis, the growth and economic issues reporter at the Asheville Citizen-Times, is leaving the paper.

His last day is Friday. Davis is moving to San Diego, where his wife has a new job.

Davis has been at the paper since August 2017. He has reported about business, economic development, health care and government on topics ranging from community development; following and analyzing local, regional and national trends; writing about government uses of taxpayer money on development issues; and acting as a watchdog reporter of local business entities.

He previously worked at the Battle Creek Enquirer in Michigan as an income and opportunity reporter.

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.