Categories: OLD Media Moves

Texas paper hires new business reporter

R.S. Douglas is the new business reporter at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, and she introduced herself to readers on Sunday.

Douglas writes, “I first majored in anthropology because the idea of telling the story of someone who never had the opportunity to was alluring. I quickly realized, however, anthropology is much more physical labor than what I was cut out for.

“I took Robert Wernsman’s introductory journalism course my sophomore year, and that was it — I fell in love with reporting.

“My fascination with economics and government policy led me to the Media Strategies degree. Media Strategies is a combination of journalism principles and business practices.

“In August of this year, I walked the stage at Texas Tech, and now I am the business reporter for the A-J.”

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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.