Washington Biz Journal hires Koma to cover development

Alex Koma

The Washington Business Journal has hired Alex Koma as a reporter to cover development.

He will start on March 21.

Koma has been managing editor of ARLNow for the past year, reporting on government, crime, politics and more in Arlington County, Virginia for a hyperlocal news website. He edited and wrote articles as part of a small team of reporters.

Before that, Koma reported on Prince William County, a suburb of Washington, D.C., for regional newspaper InsideNoVa. He also reported on how state and local governments use and regulate technology for StateScoop.com.

He is a Virginia Tech graduate.

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.