Categories: OLD Media Moves

MLive hires new business reporter

MLive Media Group announced Tuesday that Emily Lawler has joined the MLive Lansing team as the Capital business reporter.

A story on its website states, “Lawler comes to MLive from MIRS News, a subscription-based Lansing political newsletter, where she covered the state Senate. Previously she covered the Gov. Rick Snyder administration with the same publication.

“Lawler, 25, is a 2011 graduate of Michigan State University, where she double majored in journalism and public policy.

“She has covered issues such as the Right to Work protests in 2012, a statewide recruiting challenge for school superintendents and the recent introduction of taser devices to state prisons. In her new role, she will focus on statewide business issues such as the minimum wage ballot initiative and economic development efforts across the state.

“Lawler occasionally appears as a panelist on Tim Skubick’s ‘Off the Record.’ She also participated last year in a German-American Fulbright Commission program in Berlin.”

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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.