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Knoxville paper hires new business reporter

Brenna McDermott

Brenna McDermott has been hired as a business reporter for the Knoxville News Sentinel and the Knoxville Business Journal in Tennessee.

Jack McElroy of the News Sentinel writes, “Brenna relocated to Knoxville from Columbia, Mo., where she was group editor/director of content for the Business Times Co. and editor of the Columbia Business Times. In that role last year, she earned a spot on the Folio 30 Under 30 list, which recognizes young leaders who will be shaping the future of the magazine media industry.

“Before that, Brenna, a graduate of Truman State University, was director of women’s network at the Columbia Chamber of Commerce.

“We’re thrilled to have her.

“She’ll be teaming up with Cortney Roark, with whom readers of the Business Journal are already well acquainted. Cortney is a University of Tennessee graduate and former News Sentinel, Moxley Carmichael and City of Knoxville intern.”

Read more here.

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.

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