Tampa Bay Biz Journal hires Ward as a digital producer

Brendan Ward

The Tampa Bay Business Journal has hired Brendan Ward as a digital producer.

He will start next week.

Ward has been interning this summer at the Atlanta Business Chronicle. He has interned for the Statesboro Herald in Georgia as well.

He is a graduate of Georgia Southern University. While in college, he worked at The George-Anne student newspaper.

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.