Upstate New York reporter adds biz news to beat

Michael Goot

Michael Goot, a reporter at the Glens Falls Post-Star in upstate New York, is now covering business news.

Goot wrties, “The paper has lacked a regular person covering business topics for a couple years, with different reporters covering stories here and there. Other reporters still will be contributing stories, but I am going to be taking the lead on business coverage.

“Since I took over the city of Glens Falls beat, I have been covering the Downtown Revitalization Initiative projects and the Planning Board meetings, as well the alphabet soup of meetings including the IDA, EDC and CDC. I got some business stories and tips out of those meetings, so this is just an extension of what I already have been doing.

“I look forward to doing more business stories. It is an important topic for the community.”

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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.