Indianapolis Biz Journal hires new reporter, moves reporter to new beat

Samm Quinn and Kurt Christian

Sammi Quinn and Kurt Christian

The Indianapolis Business Journal is moving reporter Sammi Quinn to a new beat covering Indianapolis city government and has hired Kurt Christian to cover Quinn’s beat, called North of 96th.

Quinn grew up in Northwest Indiana and graduated from Franklin College in 2013, opting then to make central Indiana her home.

She was a reporter for papers in Portland and Greenfield before landing a job at IBJ in 2018. She’s covered everything from the cops beat to city and county government in communities east of Indianapolis and is thrilled to be working in the northern suburbs.

Christian has been a reporter for the Bloomington Herald-Times for the last four-and-a-half years, covering city government, economic development and police.

He’s a graduate of Indiana University.

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.