Upstate Biz Journal hires new reporter

Trevor Anderson of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal has been hired as a reporter for the Upstate Business Journal in South Carolina.

Anderson writes, “I spent my freshman year in college at Gardner-Webb University. The following year, I transferred to the University of South Carolina-Upstate.

“I bounced around between majors for the first couple of years. My main focus was on soccer and my grades really suffered. During my junior year, I decided to make the jump back into communications. Gradually, my grades started to improve and I began thinking about the future.

“After graduation, I went to work as a freelance writer for GSA Business. I wanted to find a full-time job in my hometown, so one day I put on a tie and walked into the Herald-Journal in downtown Spartanburg.

“I was hired part-time at first, covering everything from volleyball games to dirt-track racing. After paying my dues for a while, I was offered the job as the business reporter in 2006.”

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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.