Nashville Biz Journal reporter leaves for government job

Scott Harrison

Scott Harrison, a reporter at the Nashville Business Journal, is leaving the paper for a job with the state government.

His last day is Friday. Harrison covered government and economic development, banking and law for the American City Business Journals paper.

Harrison’s new job will be communications work for the Tennessee Department of Economic & Community Development.

Harrison had been at the paper since September 2013, and he interned at Bloomberg in New York prior to that. He also interned on the business news desk of the Savannah Morning News.

He’s a Washington & Lee University.

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.