San Diego Biz Journal hires Marroquin as a reporter

Mario Marroquin

The San Diego Business Journal has hired Mario Marroquin as a reporter.

He will start in April.

Marroquin is currently a contributing writer for Jersey Digs, writing about multifamily and residential commercial real estate developments and trends in New Jersey.

He previously worked as a reporter for Latin Finance covering emerging market debt and loan transactions and for NJBiz.com, where he covered real estate.

Marroquin also worked at the Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania.

He’s a Penn State 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.