Categories: OLD Media Moves

Indianapolis Biz Journal hires new reporter

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.

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.