Categories: OLD Media Moves

Missouri paper switches business reporters

Kathryn Wall of the Springfield News-Leader in Missouri writes Sunday about leaving the business news beat at the Gannett paper.

Wall writes, “I’ve met some of the most innovative and interesting business minds anywhere.

“But my time on the business pages has come to an end. Reporter Thomas Gounley is taking over that beat, and, as you can see on the business page today, he has jumped right in.

“And me? Almost two years ago, Executive Editor David Stoeffler approached me about being part of a big project.

“We intended over the course of 18 months to shine a light on the issues that affected the well-being of children in the Ozarks.

“I was covering the court system then, and had — unfortunately — been very busy with child abuse cases.

“That’s how I came to be part of the Every Child project.”

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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.