MLive biz reporter Afana joining Free Press

Dana Afana

MLive business reporter Dana Afana is leaving the news organization to join the Detroit Free Press.

Her last day is Friday. She will start at the Free Press next month and cover City Hall and elections.

Afana has been at MLive since August 2016. She has covered transportation issues locally and regionally, and countywide commercial real estate and business stories. She led its coverage on Detroit’s revitalization, Mayor’s office, initiatives to reduce blight, business developments, economic and entrepreneurial news.

Afana is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University.

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.