Hayleigh Colombo, a Butler University graduate who interned at the Indianapolis Business Journal in 2012, has been hired as a reporter for the business newspaper.
Colombo replaces Kathleen McLaughlin, an IBJ reporter since 2008, who recently moved to Oregon.
She covered higher education for the Lafayette Journal and Courier for two years before joining Chalkbeat Indiana 14 months ago. Chalkbeat is a not-for-profit news site providing the region’s most comprehensive coverage of K-12 education.
Colombo also covered manufacturing, agriculture, economic development and consumer issues for the Journal and Courier, a Gannett paper.
While at Butler, she was editor in chief of the student newspaper. Colombo also interned at The Hill.
