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Talking Biz News to host event on future of business journalism

Talking Biz News will host its first event on Nov. 1 in New York that will have two panels discussing the future of business journalism.

The event, which will begin at noon, will be held at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in Times Square.

The first panel will discuss the relationship between business journalists and companies and feature panelists such as Sally Beatty, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who works at Pfizer, and BuzzFeed business editor Peter Lauria.

The second panel will examine business models for business journalism media and include Rob Fisher, group publisher and senior vice president at American City Business Journals, operating out of New York.

Both panels will be moderated by Talking Biz News founder Chris Roush.

For more information, go here. To reserve your spot, please email Roush at croush@email.unc.edu.

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.