Minneapolis/St. Paul Biz Journal reporter Thomas moving to commercial real estate beat

Dylan Thomas Credit: Nancy Kuehn

Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal reporter Dylan Thomas is moving over to the commercial real estate beat.

He had been covering retail, restaurants and transportation.

Thomas joined the Business Journal in March 2019. He previously had been editor of the Southwest Journal, a biweekly community newspaper serving southwest Minneapolis neighborhoods. He also worked as a staff writer and assistant editor at the paper.

He also worked for the Mankato Free Press for four years.

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.