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Star-Tribune hires Williams as a business reporter

Nick Williams

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has hired Nick Williams as a reporter on the business news desk.

He will be covering entrepreneurs, a universe that includes everything from small, independently owned businesses to venture-capital backed startups.

Williams previously was a reporter at the Milwaukee Business Journal, where he covered the business of sports, housing industry, transportation, venture capital, entrepreneurs and technology.

He also previously worked at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, where he covered the housing market, manufacturing industry, food and beverage production industry, Minnesota airports, airline industry, diversity in business and minority-owned business.

Williams also worked as a sports reporter at the Tampa Tribune and as a news reporter at the Bradenton (Fla.) Herald.

He is a graduate of Marquette University.

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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