Oregon paper hires new business reporter

Abbey MacDonald

Abbey McDonald has been hired as a business reporter for The Astorian in Oregon.

Ethan Meyers of The Astorian writes, “She soon settled on a double major of journalism and anthropology at the University of Oregon, where she graduated in June. She also graduated from the Robert D. Clark Honors College. Since her commitment to the career, journalism has taken her to several places across Oregon. Now, it will settle her in Astoria.

“McDonald will be covering business and tourism for The Astorian. Through her work in business and its many intersections with other topics, she will also be contributing as a lead reporter for the Coast River Business Journal.

“She interned at the Willamette Week in Portland and The News-Review in Roseburg, where she was the paper’s Snowden intern. This past summer, she worked for the Malheur Enterprise in Vale, where she did reporting on construction and the coronavirus pandemic.”

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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.