Press Herald names LaClaire to cover business

Hannah LaClaire

The Portland Press Herald in Maine has named Hannah LaClaire to cover business.

LaClaire has been at its sister paper, The Times Herald, since 2018.

LaClaire took home the Bob Drake Young Writer’s Award, which is given to a journalist with less than two years of experience, from the Maine Press Association last year.

LaClaire currently covers the communities of Brunswick and Freeport, which includes Bowdoin College and the ongoing redevelopment of the former Brunswick Naval Air Station.

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.