Washington Biz Journal hires Maake as digital producer

Katishi Maake

Katishi Maake has been hired by the Washington Business Journal as a digital producer.

Maake will be handling digital assignments, news and feature stories and print edition features.

Maake, who hails from the Pittsburgh area, earned his bachelor of arts from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at University of Maryland in 2017.

He has completed internships at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, CNNPolitics, McClatchy Washington bureau, Prince George’s Sentinel and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

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.