Categories: OLD Media Moves

Tennessean hires two new business reporters

Stefanie Murray, executive editor of The Tennessean in Nashville, announced that the paper has hired two new business journalists.

They are:

Holly Fletcher started in early December covering Nashville’s massive health care industry. Holly comes from Power, Finance & Risk in New York City. She was the managing editor overseeing a five-person editorial team covering finance and M&A in the power and utility sector in the Americas. She has been with PFR since 2009. She has a BA in International Affairs from Northeastern University and a MS from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Lizzy Alfs started in late November as the retail reporter. Lizzy was previously with The Ann Arbor News in Michigan where she is a business reporter covering real estate and development. She’s developed a network among retailers, restaurateurs, community leaders and real estate agents, and won a first-place breaking news award from the Michigan Associated Press Editorial Association for coverage of the Borders’ bookstore bankruptcy. She graduated in 2011 from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in English.

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.