San Diego Biz Journal hires Reuter to cover startups

Elise Reuter

The San Diego Business Journal has hired Elise Reuter to cover the startup community, software companies and Qualcomm.

She starts on Sept. 24.

Reuter has been working at the Kansas City Business Journal for the past two years, covering health care, life sciences and publicly traded technology companies. Her projects included profiles of cancer researchers, features on hospital development in the Kansas City market, and extensive coverage of the Sprint/T-Mobile merger.

She previously worked at the Summit Daily News in Frisco, Colorado, covering everything from business and nonprofits to municipal government.

Reuter is a University of Kansas graduate in journalism and French language and literature.

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.