Michigan paper hires Hansen as business reporter

Haley Hansen

Haley Hansen has been hired by the Lansing (Michigan) State Journal as a business reporter.

Hansen is a South Dakota-raised journalist who worked this summer as an intern for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She has also interned for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and the Wisconsin State-Journal in Madison.

She is the former managing editor of the Minnesota Daily, the University of Minnesota’s award-winning student newspaper.

She graduated in May 2017 with a degree in journalism and a minor in English.

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.