Categories: OLD Media Moves

Texas paper hires new business reporter

Denise Marquez has been hired as the new business reporter at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.

She writes, “I was offered the job after Matt Dotray, the former business reporter, changed positions at the A-J and left an open slot that I was lucky to be given the opportunity to fill. Matt is now covering the government beat.

:When I was officially told I was hired as the A-J’s business reporter I borrowed my previous employer’s subscription of the A-J and read Matt’s business stories. Let me tell you, it was good stuff. So I know there are big expectations I must uphold with the title that sits behind my name — Denise Marquez, A-J business reporter.

“Since I’ve sort of introduced myself, here’s a little more about me. I grew up in Lovington, New Mexico, graduated high school in 2006 and moved to Washington state to volunteer as a traveling youth minister. In 2010, I became a student at the University of New Mexico and graduated in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in multimedia journalism. Soon after I landed a reporter job in Hobbs.”

Read more here.

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.

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