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Biz reporter Zak leaving Anchorage daily for Chicago

Annie Zak

Annie Zak, a business reporter for the Anchorage Daily News, is leaving the paper and moving to Chicago.

Zak became a business reporter at the Daily News in Anchorage in 2014 to write about a wide range of business/economy topics.

She previously worked at the Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle, writing about  transportation and other news. Previously, she worked as a reporter for the Orange County Register, where she wrote about education, housing, local government and more.

Zak was also a researcher for the award-winning, data-driven Maytag Project, which sought to answer the question of what happened to a small Illinois town after its Maytag factory moved to Mexico.

She has a master’s degree from the Columbia Journalism School, where she was a fellow in the selective Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, and a bachelor’s degree from Knox College in Spanish and creative writing.

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.

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