Tennessee biz reporter headed to Colorado to cover education

Erica Breunlin

Erica Breunlin, a business reporter at the Knoxville News-Sentinel in Tennessee, is leaving the paper to become an education reporter at the Colorado Sun.

She will start next month.

Breunlin has been helping produce Knox.biz, a monthly magazine dedicated to the stories of the region’s business community. In addition to profiling notable companies based in Knoxville and East Tennessee, it covers startups, explore the city’s food scene and dives into economic development issues shaping the community and its future.

She previously worked at BizTimes Milwaukee as a nonprofit and education reporter.

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.