Montreal Gazette hires business reporter

Jacob Serebrin

Freelance business reporter Jacob Serebrin has been hired as a business reporter for the Montreal Gazette.

He starts June 1.

Serebrin, who has been a freelancer for the past seven years, has covered trends in venture capital, young people starting traditional businesses and how medical marijuana companies are dealing with marketing restrictions for The Globe and Mail.

He has also written about two federal budgets and a provincial election in Ontario for the Toronto Star and written hundreds of briefs and covered dozens of earnings calls for the Ottawa Business Journal.

Serebrin is a Concordia University graduate.

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.