Milwaukee Business Journal hires new travel and manufacturing reporter

Patrick Leary

Patrick Leary started Thursday as the Milwaukee Business Journal’s new manufacturing and travel reporter.

Mark Kass of the Business Journal writes, “To help introduce him to our readers, I asked Patrick a few questions about his background, interest in business and his hobbies away from the office.

“Q: Tell us about your journalism background? ‘I’ve spent the last two years at The Journal Times in Racine, primarily covering city government. Before that, I interned at the Arizona Republic in Phoenix covering the town of Gilbert and had an education fellowship internship at The Journal Sentinel.

“‘I graduated from Marquette in 2015 with a journalism major and history minor. At Marquette, I was the sports editor of the student newspaper for three semesters and also worked in the athletic department and marketing and communication office. I also participated in the O’Brien Fellowship program, working on a project about water scarcity in the American southwest.'”

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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.