Reporter Grayson leaving Minneapolis/St. Paul Biz Journal

Katharine Grayson

Katharine Grayson, a reporter at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, is leaving the paper and the news business.

Grayson covered med tech, technology, venture capital, health care and aviation. Her new job is internal communications at Medtronic.

“I’ve loved covering tech, startups and health care in this town for more than a decade, and appreciate everyone who has helped me along the way,” she wrote on Twitter.

Alex Wittenberg, also a reporter at the Business Journal, is taking over her beat.

Grayson has been at the paper since July 20o6 and has been a senior reporter since 2016. She is a University of Wisconsin graduate.

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.