St. Louis daily hires Feldt as business reporter

Brian Feldt

St. Louis Business Journal reporter Brian Feldt has been hired by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to join its business news desk.

He started this week. He will work an early shift, posting breaking business news each morning, in addition to covering beer and retail news.

Feldt had been with the Business Journal since July 2013. He led the Business Journal’s technology and real estate coverage, writing three to five stories daily. He also spearheaded the newspaper’s TechFlash segment, which reports on St. Louis’ startup and innovation community, venture capital industry and other technology-related companies.

Before that, Feldt worked for Patch.com’s operation in St. Louis as an associate regional editor.

He also was a statehouse reporter for the State Journal-Register in Springfield, Illinois.

Feldt has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Southern Illinois University and a master’s degree in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois.

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.