Washington Biz Journal reporter Senovitz moves to retail/hospitality beat

Dan Sernovitz

Washington Business Journal reporter Dan Sernovitz is moving to the retail and hospitality beat.

He previously covered commercial real estate.

Sernovitz has been with the paper since September 2011. He previously spent five years at the Baltimore Business Journal covering real estate. And before that, he worked at the Hagerstown (Maryland) Herald-Mail for a year and the Lansdale (Pennsylvania) Reporter for three years.

Economic development reporter Alex Koma is also adding sports business to his beat.

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.