Triangle Biz Journal hires Brummett to cover retail and restaurants

Laura Brummett

The Triangle Business Journal in Raleigh has hired Laura Brummett to cover retail and restaurants.

She will start Nov. 29 and will also cover business services.

Brummett is the city editor for RALToday, the Raleigh-based newsletter from 6AM City, for the past nine months.

She previously interned at The (Raleigh) News & Observer, tech news site GrepBeat and The Sanford Herald. Brummett is a business journalism graduate from UNC-Chapel Hill.

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.