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Tacoma biz watchdog reporter moving to North Carolina

Kate Martin

Kate Martin, the business watchdog reporter for the Tacoma News Tribune for the past two years, is leaving the paper and moving to North Carolina.

Her last day at the News Tribune was Friday.

Martin has been with the paper since August 2013, covering the Tacoma City Council, Metro Parks Tacoma and Tacoma Public Utilities. Before that, she worked at the Skagit Valley Herald for six years covering education and government.

She also worked at the Loveland Reporter Herald in Colorado for nearly four years. She has formal training with Investigative Reporters and Editors in 2011 as the first Rural Computer Assisted Reporting fellow. Some of her investigative stories can be found here.

Martin is a graduate of the College of Charleston’s Department of Media Studies. She began her career freelancing in Virginia.

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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