Minneapolis/St. Paul Biz Journal reporter Halter joining Axios

Nick Halter

Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal reporter Nick Halter is joining Axios to write a local newsletter.

He will be covering business and other topics. He will write the newsletter with Torey Van Oot.

Halter has been at the Business Journal since August 2013 and most recently has been covering real estate. He previously covered retail and sports business.

He has also been a reporter for The Southwest Journal and the Journal of Minneapolis, as well as the Wausau Daily Herald.

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.