Milwaukee biz publication hires new reporter

BizTimes Milwaukee has hired a new reporter.

Hilary Dickinson has joined the editorial team as a reporter. Dickinson most recently served as the college’s news writer/editor at Beloit College, where she wrote and edited content for Beloit College Magazine, as well as the college’s e-newsletters, news releases and marketing materials. She has previous experience as a reporter at the Beloit Daily News and has written two books.

A native of Waukesha, Dickinson holds a bachelor’s in journalism and mass communication from the University of Minnesota. At BizTimes, she will cover the manufacturing and health care beats for BizTimes Milwaukee magazine and BizTimes.com. Dickinson joins reporter Erica Breunlin, associate editor Molly Dill, managing editor Andrew Weiland and executive editor Steve Jagler in the editorial department.

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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.