Minneapolis/St. Paul Biz Journal hires Phaneuf as data reporter

Taryn Phaneuf

The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal has hired Taryn Phaneuf as a data reporter.

She has been working part-time for the paper as a researcher since July.

Phaneuf spent the better part of the last five years as an independent journalist reporting in-depth news features for local and national outlets.

She started her career at the Minnesota Daily, the student-run publication at the University of Minnesota, where she earned a degree in journalism and sociology in 2011. she served as the Daily’s editor-in-chief for 2011-12, overseeing a 70-member editorial department in charge of publishing four print editions per week and daily online news.

Later, she was a quasi-projects reporter at the Bowling Green Daily News in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where she worked closely with staff photographers to tell visually focused stories that took a deeper look at issues of the day: housing, public health, economic development and higher education, among others.

Her work has appeared on MinnPost.com, TheAtlantic.com, Crosscut, Civil Eats, and The Inlander, among others.

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.