South Bend Tribune hires economic development reporter

Caleb Bauer

Caleb Bauer is the new economic development and business reporter at the South Bend Tribune in Indiana.

He started on Monday. Bauer replaces Erin Blasko, who left for a job in public relations at the University of Notre Dame.

The Tribune has a four-person business news desk.

Bauer had been at The Commercial Review in Portland, Indiana, as a city reporter for the past 15 months. There he covered crime, courts, and local government for the three major municipalities in Jay County — Portland, Dunkirk and Redkey.

Bauer graduated from Indiana University in 2016 with a degree in history and a certificate in journalism.

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.