Nashville Biz Journal hires new money reporter

Meg Garner

Nashville Business Journal editor Lori Becker sent out the following announcement:

I’m excited to announce that Meg Garner will be joining the newsroom team as our new money reporter.
Meg is a spring graduate of the University of North Carolina. (For those keeping count, yes, that’s two Megs from UNC in the newsroom. We just want to keep you on your toes.)
This summer, she has been interning at Reuters in San Francisco, covering the technology industry. She previously interned at TheStreet.com in New York, Exit Event (a startup publication in the Research Triangle), the Greater Wilmington Business Journal and Talking Biz News. She also was a senior writer for The Daily Tar Heel, UNC’s student newspaper.
She’s a Knoxville native who’s excited to get back to Tennessee. She volunteers with underprivileged youth, plays soccer and is a Gilmore Girls fan.
Her first day will be Aug. 22.

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.