Roanoke Times biz reporter Fabris departs for Education Writers Association

Casey Fabris

Roanoke (Virginia) Times business reporter Casey Fabris is leaving the paper to join the Education Writers Association.

Fabris has been a business reporter at the paper for the past two years. She writes a weekly column highlighting retail openings, closures and expansions.

She previously spent more than four years covering Franklin County for the paper.

Fabris interned at the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Philadelphia Inquirer and is a Syracuse University 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.