Automotive Information hires 2 retail reporters

Automotive Information has added two retail reporters in Detroit.

Gail Kachadourian Howe will cowl the finance and insurance coverage business and different retail subjects. Howe, 50, has been a contract reporter for Automotive Information and was a employees reporter at Automotive Information 16 years in the past.

She holds a grasp’s diploma in journalism from Northwestern College and a bachelor’s diploma in promoting from Michigan State College.

Julie Walker will cowl dealership mergers and acquisitions and different retail subjects. Walker, 40, spent the final two years as a contract author and replica editor for Automotive Information, Catena Media, BridgeDetroit, Planet Detroit and the Detroit Free Press. Earlier than that, she labored for almost a decade at The Detroit Information as a reporter, copy editor and lead sports activities designer.

Walker holds a grasp’s diploma in liberal and interdisciplinary research and a bachelor’s diploma in communications/print journalism, each from the College of Michigan’s Dearborn campus.