Wisconsin State Journal hires Heidemann as biz reporter

Emilie Heidemann

The Wisconsin State Journal in Madison has hired Emilie Heidemann to be a business reporter.

She has been at Wisconsin Media Group since 2018 and serves as the community and business editor for four publications, as well as a quarterly magazine. Heidemann also covers the Village of Oregon and Fitchburg community beat.

Heidemann was previously a reporter and assistant editor at the Lodi Enterprise and Poynette Press.

She is a graduate of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

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.