South Bend Tribune biz reporter leaves paper

Jake Brown

Jake Brown, a business reporter at the South Bend Tribune in Indiana, has left the paper for a content marketing job.

Brown writes, “Turns out Market Basket isn’t immune to this type of turnover. If you haven’t gotten the hint by now, I’ll just spit it out: This is my last effort as Market Basket columnist.

“I accepted a position as content manager for Visit South Bend Misawaka last month. Actually, by the time this runs I’ll have already started. It’s an exciting opportunity that I couldn’t turn down.

“Mary Shown, a talented reporter from the Bloomington Herald-Times, will be taking over the column later this month. Having helped interview Mary, I have no doubt she’ll do a fantastic job. Mary grew up here and knows the area well, and she’s looking forward to coming back home. I’m excited to read her work in the coming weeks.

“For me, this is a bittersweet column. My new gig not only takes me away from The Tribune but out of journalism altogether after an 11-year run. It’s been a blast.”

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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.