News & Observer hires new business reporter

Aaron Sánchez-Guerra

The (Raleigh) News & Observer has hired Aaron Sánchez-Guerra as a business reporter.

Sánchez-Guerra will cover growth and development. He has been working for WLRN in south Florida.

Sánchez-Guerra is a recent graduate of North Carolina State University with a BA in English.

A trilingual journalist, he has been covering news about the Latino population in North Carolina for outlets such as NPR’s Latino USA and Latino Rebels, as well as Qué Pasa, a local Hispanic newspaper. His stories reflect a range of voices, from Central Americans seeking asylum to migrant farmworkers recovering from Hurricane Florence.

He is a native of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas of Mexican origin.

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.