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Tennessean hires new banking reporter

Jamie McGee, who had been working at the Nashville Business Journal, has been hired by The Tennessean in Nashville to cover banking, finance and technology.

She joins her former boss, Lance Williams, who left the Business Journal to become the Tennessean’s business editor in November 2012.

“Three of the five reporters on the business team have started in the last month, and we are very excited about the new direction and energy of the team,” said Williams in an email to Talking Biz News.

McGee, a Nashville native, had been covering the tourism and hospitality beat, which also includes music and entertainment, sports business and restaurants, for the Business Journal.

Before that, McGee worked at Bloomberg, where she covered the insurance industry during the depths of the financial crisis. During her last year at Bloomberg, she was largely responsible for coverage of Berkshire Hathaway, which is the company owned by Warren Buffett.

Prior to that, McGee was a reporter with The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C., where she covered local government issues.

McGee received her bachelor’s degree in journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill and her master’s degree from Columbia 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.