Tampa Bay Biz Journal reporter Brezina-Smith departs for St. Pete Catalyst

Veronica Brezina-Smith

The St. Pete Catalyst has hired Tampa Bay Business Journal reporter Veronica Brezina-Smith to cover real estate and business news.

She covered transportation, the airports, ports, tourism and health care for the Business Journal, where she had worked since July 2018.

Before that, she worked at the Orlando Business Journal, where she was the economic development reporter.

Brezina-Smith is a graduate of the University of Central Florida.

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.