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Orlando Sentinel hires two business reporters

The Orlando Sentinel has hired two new reporters for its business news desk.

The Sentinel has hired Caitlin Dineen, a business reporter who covered transportation, tourism and business  at the Wilmington StarNews in North Carolina.

Dineen also had reporting stints at the Fayetteville Observer and The Press of Atlantic City. She graduated from Longwood University in Farmville, Va. Dineen will be covering small business, insurance and utilities for the Sentinel. She starts on Aug. 27.

The Sentinel has also hired Kyle Arnold, a business reporter who covered aerospace, travel and transportation at the Tulsa World.

Before that, he was a reporter at The Monitor newspaper in McAllen, Texas. He graduated from the University of Washington. Arnold is covering restaurants, including Orlando-based Darden restaurants, and retail for the Sentinel.

He started on Aug. 18.

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.

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