MiBiz hires Smith as a reporter

Sydney Smith, a senior government reporter at the Holland Sentinel in Michigan, has been hired as a business reporter at MiBiz.com, which covers business news in Western Michigan.

Her last day at the Sentinel will be Nov. 23.

“I have many good things to say about my time here,” said Smith on Twitter. “I’ll still be covering West MI, so keep up with me here! Thank you for following along with me and your city.”

Smith has been at the Sentinel for two years. She previously worked at the Times-Herald in Port Huron, Michigan.

She is a Central Michigan University 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.