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South Carolina daily hires Brown to cover growth and development

Kirk Brown

The Greenville News in South Carolina has hired Kirk Brown to cover growth and development.

Executive editor Steve Bruss writes, ” I’ve worked with Kirk since late 2016, and I’m excited about this change for him and for you. Kirk brings tremendous experience, and he is a dogged reporter driven by a sense of fairness and objectivity. I expect more great things from Kirk as he strives to tell the story of Greenville county’s growth.”

Brown has been working at the Anderson Independent Mail, also in South Carolina, since 2010. Both papers are owned by Gannett.

His primary interests include watchdog journalism and coverage of government and politics.

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.

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