Categories: OLD Media Moves

South Florida Biz Journal hires tech/venture reporter

Celia Ampel, a recent graduate of the University of Missouri, has been hired by the South Florida Business Journal to cover technology and venture capital stories.

Ampel worked this summer as an intern on the Miami Herald business news desk. She graduated from Missouri earlier this year.

Ampel has also interned on the business news desk of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the business news desk of the Oklahoman in Oklahoma City.

This past year, she was also a business reporter for the Jefferson City News Tribune in Jefferson City, Mo.

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.