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Lubbock paper hires new business reporter

Sarah Self-Walbrick

Sarah Self-Walbrick has been hired as the new business reporter for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal in Texas.

Self-Walbrick says she will cover the local business community by writing profiles, trend and investigative pieces.

“I also get to write for Lubbock Business Inc. magazine, a business-to-business publication, that I helped start last year as a freelancer,” she said in an email to Talking Biz News. It’s a monthly publication.

Self-Walbrick is a Lubbock native who recently graduated with a master’s in mass communications from Texas Tech University, where she also earned two bachelor’s degrees. As a student, she co-ran The Hub@TTU, an online student publication, that has been recognized as one of the best college media websites in the nation.

She also teaches a junior-level journalism course as an adjunct professor at Texas Tech.

“I’m very excited to be in this position, and I look forward to working with a community I am passionate about,” said Self-Walbrick.
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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