Montana paper hires business reporter

Abby Lynes has been hired as a business reporter at the Bozeman Chronicle in Montana.

Lynes has been interning at The Oregonian in Portland for the past three months, reporting on housing and development as well as some breaking news.

She has also interned at the Great Falls Tribune in Montana.

Lynes graduated from the University of Montana with a degree in journalism and a minor in English. While in college, she worked at the Kaimin, the student newspaper, as a reporter and a copy editor.

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.