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St. Pete Catalyst hires new business reporter

Brian Hartz

Veteran business reporter Brian Hartz has joined the St. Pete Catalyst staff.

Bill DeYoung of the Catalyst writes, “Hartz comes to us from the Sarasota-based Business Observer, where as Tampa Bay editor he spent three years writing about business and strategy in Pinellas, Hillsborough, Polk and Pasco counties.

“Hartz received a Master’s in journalism from Indiana University in 2001, and afterwards began what he calls “a bit of a nomadic career,” pursuing journalistic opportunities as they presented themselves while soaking up each country’s culture.

“His focus on business began during the three years he spent in New Zealand, where he took a writing and editing job with the country’s leading boating magazine.

“In Canada, Hartz worked for a trade magazine publisher, writing for a variety of niche business publications (‘everything from agriculture and commercial baking to magazines for the firefighting industry, aviation – you name it, they have a magazine for it’). He was editor-in-chief of the monthly business magazine Douglas, based in Victoria, British Columbia.”

Read more here.

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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