Pacific Coast Biz Times hires Holland as a reporter

Brooke Holland

The Pacific Coast Business Times in California has hired Brooke Holland as a reporter.

She previously spent five years at the digital news website Noozhawk in Santa Barbara as a reporter and photographer.

Holland graduated from California State University Northridge, where she studied journalism. While in college, she was managing editor and editor in chief of The Sundial, the student newspaper.

She also wrote for USA Today College and was a fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.

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.