Omaha daily hires Crisler to cover business/education

Dan Crisler

The Omaha World-Herald has hired Dan Crisler as a reporter covering business and higher education.

He will start April 26.

Crisler is currently a reporter at the Watertown Public Opinion in South Dakota, where he has worked since August 2015.

He is a graduate of Dakota State 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.