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New hires made at Cincinnati Enquirer business desk

The Cincinnati Enquirer business news department has hired two new reporters, according to an e-mail announcement by business editor Carolyn Pione sent to staff members on Tuesday.

The moves come days after the Enquirer fired investigative business reporter Jim McNair in what has been a controversial decision among business journalists.

In the e-mail, Pione wrote, “I am very pleased to announce that we have hired Lisa Bernard as a business reporter. Her beats will include residential and commercial real estate.

“Lisa lives in Cincinnati already and works as a business reporter for the Dayton Daily News, covering commercial real estate, economic development, small business and housing. She has worked for Cox for five years and worked at the Journal News in Hamilton with our colleagues Dave Niinemets, Mike Kurtz, Jessica Brown and Carrie Cochran. While there she won best news writer and best enterprise reporter in the Associated Press-Ohio awards and best reporter from the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists. I know you will join me in welcoming her when she arrives on Sept. 10.

“Also, we are aggressively seeking an accomplished reporter to cover Procter & Gamble and downtown development. We are still accepting applications, so please tell me asap if you know someone we should contact.

“And we also are welcoming features copy editor and restaurant writer Stepfanie Romine to business as well. Stepfanie joins our team with great enthusiasm for covering retail and restaurant news and trends and will be working closely with John Eckberg and Randy Tucker to learn the business side of those beats. She’ll start on Sept. 17, and we’re thrilled to have her.

“Meanwhile, Cliff Peale, as you know, is moving to Local as of Monday to cover higher education and the business of health care, although he will occasionally help with business projects.”

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.

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  • Some commitment to good business journalism they have, pulling in a copyeditor from features with no business experience to fill the shoes of Jim McNair and others.

  • Can it be possible that the corporate heads (Blue Bloods) in Cincinnati have control over the Enquirer? It seemed to me that every article McNair wrote was watered down. He could have written far worse things about many of those that have threatened the paper with law suits to shut him up.

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