Phoenix Biz Journal hires new retail and restaurant reporter

Steven Totten has been hired by the Phoenix Business Journal to cover restaurants and retail.

Liz Nichols writes, “Totten joins the Business Journal from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where he was a managing digital producer for the Cronkite Borderland Initiative and the 2015 project of the Carnegie-Knight News21 program, “Weed Rush.” He has worked at the Arizona Republic and written freelance articles for several Spanish-language publications.

“Totten, an Arizona native, received bachelor’s degrees in English and Spanish from ASU, then completed his master’s degree in journalism and mass communication from the Cronkite School. He is fluent in Spanish and has traveled in Peru, Costa Rica and Mexico.

“Totten primarily will cover retail and restaurants, hospitality and tourism, small business and nonprofits for the Journal.”

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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.