Categories: OLD Media Moves

News & Observer starts technology, entrepreneurship reporting program

The (Raleigh) News & Observer plans to launch a new reporting fellowship program this summer to enhance news and feature coverage of the region’s technology, innovation and entrepreneurship sectors.

A story on its website states, “A grant from Innovate Raleigh and a coalition of local partners will provide funding for the N&O to hire a reporter for at least two years to write about those issues.

“The reporter will focus on coverage of people, companies, key issues and trends in Raleigh and across the Triangle. Topics will include technology startups and main street businesses, biotechnology, and education issues related to those areas.

“The News & Observer will maintain full control over all reporting, writing and hiring.

“‘We’re thrilled that Innovate Raleigh’s partners believe in the value of independent, local journalism and are willing to support storytelling about the growing community of innovators and entrepreneurs by funding this staff position,’ said Robyn Tomlin, executive editor of the N&O and regional editor for McClatchy’s newsrooms in North Carolina and South Carolina.”

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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.