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Las Vegas biz reporter Robison leaving for PG&E

Jennifer Robison

Jennifer Robison, a business reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, has resigned from the paper to become a communications principal for PG&E in San Francisco.

Robison has been on the business news desk of the Review-Journal for more than 11 years. She was one of the reporters who helped uncover that the paper had been acquired by casino owner Sheldon Adelson.

She also covered the Affordable Care Act, real estate and employment. Robison was named Journalist of the Year by the Nevada Press Association in 2014.

Before joining the Review-Journal, Robison was special publications editor for Greenspun Media Group and editor of the Nevada Business Journal.

She holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from the University of Kansas.

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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