South Florida Biz Journal hires Bryant as data reporter

Jessica Bryant

The South Florida Business Journal has hired Jessica Bryant as its new data reporter.

A story on its website states, “Bryant, a Miami-Dade County native, will oversee planning, surveying and analyzing information for the Business Journal’s popular weekly Lists, as well as write stories based on data from the Lists and other research.

“‘I’m very excited about this position because I love business and working with data,’ Bryant said. ‘I look forward to creating the Lists and writing stories on what the numbers say about the companies and industries that we cover.’

“A recent Southern Methodist University journalism school graduate, Bryant previously served as a reporting intern for the Dallas Business Journal. While there, she wrote more than 40 stories and oversaw various key Lists, including Women-owned Businesses and Highest-Paid Public Company CFOs.”

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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.