Mobile reporter heads to Mississippi to cover biz/economy for AP

Jeff Amy, a reporter at the Mobile Press-Register, is leaving the Alabama paper to take a job with the Associated Press in Jackson, Miss., where he will cover business and the economy.

An AP story states, “‘We’re pleased to be able to add to the Mississippi news team a veteran Southern journalist who knows well the defining elements of culture, politics and economics so important in Mississippi and to AP members,’ said Adam Yeomans, AP’s bureau chief for Mississippi.

“Most recently, Amy was a reporter at the Mobile Press-Register, where he covered the Alabama Legislature and public policy, higher education, business and the economy along the Gulf Coast.

“‘Amy’s background in database and investigative journalism and his knowledge of the South — especially along the Gulf Coast — will be invaluable as the AP seeks to tell the story of Mississippi, its people and its issues for a state, national and global audience,’ Pane said.

“In 2010, he won the Alabama Associated Press Managing Editors’ award for business coverage.

“Amy, 38, is a native of Baton Rouge, La. He received a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude in 1995 from Princeton University and holds a master’s in journalism with emphasis on public policy from the University of Missouri at Columbia.”

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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.