Oregonian hires new biz reporter

Andrew Theen has been hired as a business reporter for The Oregonian.

Theen writes, “I am a new reporter covering small business in your fine city. I’m an Oregonian coming to you most recently from Bloomberg News in New York. There, I wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan veterans at the Ivy Leagues and the trend of banning bottled water on college campuses.

“Prior to Bloomberg, I studied at Northwestern University’s Medill graduate journalism program in Chicago and Washington DC. On a fellowship at Medill, I teamed up with fellow reporters to investigate Reserve and National Guard health care woes over the past decade of war. That was a powerful and educational experience.

“I liked it out East, but my heart was in Oregon. This is, after all, home.

“Growing up in Medford gives me a special understanding about the Oregon outside of the Willamette Valley. I think Hillsboro residents can relate – there’s a whole big, exciting and innovative section of our great state on the Sunset Highway.”

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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.