Richmond BizSense reporter O’Neal becomes PIO

J. Elias O'Neal

J. Elias O’Neal

J. Elias O’Neal has left RichmondBizSense to become public information officer for Chesterfield County in Virginia.

O’Neal had been with the business news website covering commercial real estate and restaurants since June 2016.

Before that, he was a business reporter for the Daily Press in Newport News, Virginia, covering real estate, transportation, the Port of Virginia and economic development for the Peninsula side of Hampton Roads, Virginia.

He also spent nearly three years covering real estate for the Greater Wilmington Business Journal in Wilmington, North Carolina.

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.