Hearst CT hires Hamad as business and features editor

Michael Hamad

Hearst Connecticut newspapers have hired Michael Hamad as its business and features editor.

Those papers include the New Haven Register, the Stamford Advocate, the Connecticut Post and the Greenwich Time.

Hamad has been with the Hartford Courant since November 2013, first as its music reporter and then as a senior editor overseeing podcast initiatives. He was host and producer of the Capitol Watch podcast.

He previously worked at the Hartford Advocate, an alternative newspaper, as associate editor and multimedia 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.