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Loeb Award winner leaves journalism for Knight Foundation job

Matt Haggman, a business journalist for the Miami Herald, has joined the staff of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as program director in Miami.

He will work with Trabian Shorters, vice president communities, in leading the foundation’s efforts to foster an informed and engaged South Florida community.

Haggman has worked as a journalist in Miami for nearly ten years. He covered legal affairs for the Daily Business Review. He joined the Miami Herald in 2004, initially reporting on the real estate industry. Since 2009 he has covered Miami-Dade County government.

In 2008, he co-authored an award-winning series, “Borrowers Betrayed,” which detailed lax state oversight of the home loan industry that contributed to Florida’s rise in mortgage fraud. The series won numerous awards, including the Gerald Loeb Award, the highest honor in business journalism.

“His years as one of the top reporters at the Miami Herald have given Matt a deep understanding of the complexities of Miami and South Florida,” said Shorters in a statement. “His demonstrated vision, tenacity, courage, know-how and commitment to discovery make him a perfect fit for Knight’s mission of informed and engaged communities.”

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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