South Carolina paper hires senior business reporter

David Dykes has been hired as a senior business reporter at the Greenville Journal and its sister publication Upstate Business Journal.

Dykes writes, “But I was often tempted to retrieve my mother’s old gray Underwood typewriter and see if I could manifest what lay beneath the commonplace occurrence.

“Many years later, I still love the business of journalism, and covering business.

“To be sure, it has changed.

“The basic principle of what we do has not.

“It’s not about good or bad news in our community. It’s about the truth of what’s happening. It’s about the successes and the failings. It’s about the promises made, but not kept. It’s about asking the tough questions, and making powerful people provide answers.

“We have to provide relevant, compelling information you can use to make decisions as consumers and residents.

“Greenville’s business environment has much to celebrate. But not everyone is benefiting.”

Read more here. Dykes, who had been business editor, had left the paper in October 2015.