Puget Sound Biz Journal promotes Garnick to associate editor

Coral Garnick

Coral Garnick, a reporter at the Puget Sound Business Journal, has been promoted to associate editor of the Seattle business weekly.

Garnick previously covered health care and retail for the American City Business Journals paper, which she joined in early 2016.

In her new job, she will oversee special reports and standing features.

Garnick was born and raised in Southeast Alaska where she deckhanded for her father on his commercial fishing boat in the summers until her senior year of college at Western Washington University. After graduating, Coral joined the Peace Corps and served as a health volunteer in Honduras.

Following her service, she completed her master’s in journalism at Columbia University. She spent 2.5 years at The Seattle Times covering T-Mobile, the Port of Seattle and general assignment business reporting in the city before joining the Business Journal.

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.