Upstate Biz Journal in South Carolina hires Bell as biz reporter

Rudolph Bell

Rudolph Bell, a former business reporter at the Greenville News, has joined the Upstate Business Journal as a business reporter.

Bell writes, “UBJ has been building its reporting staff, hiring veterans, and sending them out into the business community for that indispensable face-to-face networking.

“First, Trevor Anderson, who’s covered business in Spartanburg for more than a decade and basically owns the beat, came on board. Then UBJ hired David Dykes, my former boss and a 20-year Greenville resident who has worked as a business editor at more than one newspaper.

“And now, I am proud to say, UBJ has hired me.

“Good reporting is still based on relationships, and UBJ’s staff has been developing relationships for a long time.

“If you’ll allow me to say so, there is no finer business reporting staff in the Upstate. Bar none.

“In the journalism business, investing in content pays dividends.”

Read more here. Bell has a bachelor’s degree from Liberty University and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland.

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.