Memphis Biz Journal reporter Hardiman joining Commercial Appeal

Samuel Hardiman

Samuel Hardiman, the government and economic development reporter at the Memphis Business Journal, is joining the Memphis Commercial Appeal to cover City Hall and politics.

He has been at the American City Business Journals paper since October 2018.

“I will be forever grateful for the opportunity the Memphis Business Journal provided me,” said Hardiman. “Their talented team performs an essential service to this community — make sure that business doesn’t get done in the dark.”

He previously worked at the Tulsa World as an education reporter and then a business reporter retail, entrepreneurship, the economy, finance and other business topics.

He is a University of Missouri graduate.

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.