Spartanburg paper hires Casteel to cover growth and development

Kathryn Casteel

The Spartanburg Herald-Journal has hired Kathryn Casteel to cover growth and development.

She will start in mid July.

Casteel has been an investigative reporter at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, since October 2018.

She previously worked at FiveThirtyEight.com and interned at Crain’s New York Business.

Casteel holds a bachelor’s degree from University of South Carolina Upstate and a master’s degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

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.