Minnesota paper hires new biz reporter

Anna Haecherl (Photo by Jason Wachler)

Anna Haecherl has been hired by the St. Cloud Times newspaper in Minnesota as its business and consumer reporter.

News director Lisa Schwarz writes, “Next to arrive on the scene is Business & Consumer Reporter Anna Haecherl, who arrived at the Times on Jan. 16 and rapidly found herself caught up in one of the biggest business stories to hit town in years: the planned closure of the Electrolux freezer plant and the loss of about 900 local jobs.

“Anna spent more than two years as a reporter at the Marshall Independent, a daily newspaper in her native southwest Minnesota, before turning her hand to public relations work at a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, firm.

“But she missed the news, so PR’s loss is the reader’s gain. Anna’s varied interests include craft beer, whiskey and music. “

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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.