Categories: OLD Media Moves

South Florida Biz Journal hires reporter for startups/angel investing

Eleazer David Melendez has been hired by the South Florida Business Journal to cover startups and angel investing in the area.

Melendez joins the American City Business Journals paper from the Daily Business Review, a Miami-based law journal, where he worked for two years. He replaces Celia Ampel who left the South Florida Business Journal in June to join the Daily Business Review.

He is a 2008 graduate of Columbia University, where he studied economics and political science. Early in his career, he had prestigious internships at Dow Jones Newswires, Time and Newsweek. He also worked as a business process analyst and management consultant to CGI, a management and IT consulting firm. His native language is Spanish, a plus for navigating Miami’s startup community.

“We’re thrilled to have Eleazar on our team as we embed ourselves more deeply in the Miami business scene, and we know our readers will appreciate his enthusiasm and creativity,” said Al Lewis, the editor of the South Florida Business Journal.

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.