Washington state paper hires biz reporter

Julia-Grace Sanders

Julia-Grace Sanders has been hired as the business and agriculture reporter at the Skagit Valley Herald in Washington state.

Sanders graduated from the University of Washington in June 2017 with a major in journalism and a minor in human rights law. She also studied at Texas Christian University.

This past summer, Sanders interned at The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh. It’s one of only two independent, English dailies in the country.

Sanders worked for The Daily and the Washington student newspaper while in college as a reporter and as an editor.

She was also a research fellow at the Center for Communication, Difference and Equity at Washington.

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.