Missouri paper hires new business reporter

Alicia Stice has joined the Columbia Tribune in Missouri as a business reporter.

Justin Willett of the Tribune writes, “She recently graduated from MU with a master’s degree in journalism, and she is a wonderful addition to the staff. Before coming to the Tribune, Alicia spent time writing for The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Business Journal and the Loveland Reporter-Herald in northern Colorado.

“She grew up in Denver and is passionate about baseball, Joss Whedon shows and good journalism.”

Read more here. Stice’s undergraduate degree is also from Missouri.

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.