When a presidential candidate tweets out a biz reporter’s story

Catherine Carlock

Catherine Carlock of the Boston Business Journal writes about what happened when Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders tweeted out a story she wrote.

Carlock writes, “I was floored. The Business Journal is a niche publication, writing local business news for a local business audience. Over the past nine years I’ve worked for this company, it’s rare for my work to get attention from an out-of-state U.S. senator — let alone a possible nominee to be President of the United States.

“I texted some of my colleagues. ‘So, uh, Bernie tweeted one of my stories?’ I wrote.

“‘SANDERS?!’ wrote back fellow reporter Jessica Bartlett.

“I replied in the affirmative, then put my phone on airplane mode to enjoy the movie — the newest adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. (It was a charming delight.)

“Two hours later, when the movie got out, I pulled out my phone again as my friend and I stood in the cold waiting for the MBTA Green Line. Text after text had been rolling in.”

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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.