Retail and restaurants reporter departing Triangle Business Journal

Erika Wells

Erika Wells, the retail and restaurants reporter at the Triangle Business Journal in North Carolina, is leaving the publication.

Wells has been at the American City Business Journals paper since February.

She previously worked at the Augusta Chronicle as a reporter covering Columbia County and Augusta. And she worked at Institutional Investor in New York as a writer/researcher.

Wells also worked at the Gwinnett Daily Post in suburban Atlanta covering news.

She holds degrees from the University of Georgia and Virginia Commonwealth University.

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.