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Sportico hires Atlanta Biz Chronicle reporter Jackson

Eric Jackson

Sports business news site Sportico has hired Atlanta Business Chronicle reporter Eric Jackson.

He will start next month and move to New York.

“I can’t wait to get started and be part of a super talented team,” he wrote on Twitter. “I’ll be moving to New York soon.”

Jackson has been with the Business Chronicle since May 2019 covering the intersection of sports and business. He previously worked at the Lake City Reporter as a sports writer.

He is a graduate of Valdosta State University, where he was sports editor of the student newspaper. He is a member of National Association of Black Journalists and Associated Press Sports Editors.

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.

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