Minneapolis/St. Paul Biz Journal hires Kelly to cover restaurants and retail

Brianna Kelly

The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal has hired reporter Brianna Kelly to cover restaurants and retail.

She is also covering transportation.

Kelly has been a freelancer in Detroit, publishing work in Crain’s Detroit Business and The Detroit News. She previously worked at The Real Deal in Chicago covering real estate and at Crain’s Chicago Business as a general assignment reporter. She also worked for the AP in Chicago.

Kelly holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from DePaul University.

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.