Louisiana paper expands biz coverage, hires staff

Adam Daigle

The Acadiana Advocate in Lafayette, Louisiana, is expanding its business coverage online and in print with a daily email newsletter and a targeted section in the newspaper every Sunday.

A story on its website states, “Adam Daigle, the new editor for the Acadiana Business Advocate, has nearly 23 years in the newspaper business, most recently in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

“A native of Gonzales and a 1995 graduate of Southeastern Louisiana University, he’s returning to Louisiana. He and his wife, Shelly, are foster parents and have four children.

“Reporter Dan Boudreaux, a native of Opelousas and graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, covered business and government for The Houma Courier and The Daily Comet in Thibodaux before returning to Lafayette for a stint as a cameraman at KADN.

“‘Dan and I are ready to get started and reporting on the business developments in Acadiana,’ Daigle said.”

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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.