Our newest addition
The boss beat us to this news, but just in case you stay away from the rough and tumble world of his blog, we have a new business reporter starting soon.
Michelle Jarboe, currently working with our sister paper The Roanoke Times, will join us Sept. 6. Michelle is a recent graduate of UNC Chapel Hill and served last year as editor of the highly successful student newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel.
We've asked Michelle to cover a few specific areas for us, including retail and a beat I loosely call "The Office." I'll write more about this later, but I want us to deliver more about the everyday things going on in our offices across this region. That might mean covering the annual scrum of signing up for employer-offered health coverage or the role of the iPod in the workplace. Since many of us spend almost as much time in the office as at home, we should write more about it.
Michelle also will cover breaking business news, along with the rest of the staff, and you're likely to see a number of cover pieces in the Sunday Work & Money section from her. She has a fluid writing style, a determination when it comes to reporting and the vision to spot trends and stories.
Until she gets here, if you have any story ideas for Michelle, forward them on to me. I've already started a list.
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I think a new addition to the Biz staff is a welcome and long overdue happening. Though I don't dislike the current amount of coverage, I think that the Triad area is full of business stories that have nothing to do with Dell, PTI or non-local wire stories that a small staff just can't cover. Congratulations on the new hire and kudos on Marta's stories from Texas. It's good stuff!
Posted on August 6, 2005 2:24 PM