Triad Business Journal has hired a Wake Forest University graduate to cover innovation, health care and higher education.
Lillian Johnson, a New Jersey native who graduated from WFU in 2020, spent more than three years with the Old Gold & Black campus newspaper, first as news editor and then for a year as editor in chief. She earned the Bynum G. Shaw Prize for Journalism for 2018-2019. She also served as an intern for the Winston-Salem Journal in early 2020 before the pandemic ended that opportunity early.
Johnson will handle beats previously covered by reporter Trajan Warren, who left Triad Business Journal earlier this month to take a job at Elon University. Her primary focus will be innovation news and entrepreneurship as TBJ prepares to launch a new platform called Triad Inno. The digital media, events and data enterprise will focus on emerging innovators, growth-stage startups and their investors, local incubators and accelerators and other elements of the innovation ecosystem.
“Lillian’s work as a journalist and knowledge of the Triad from her time at Wake Forest revealed to us that she is both a quick study and passionate about delivering actionable business intelligence to our readership,” said Lloyd Whittington, editor of Triad Business Journal.
“Her enthusiasm about innovation and the people who harness it to drive the Triad forward will serve readers well, as will her hunger for uncovering health care and higher education news.”
Johnson can be reached at ljohnson@bizjournals.com or by phone at 336-370-2910. Follow her on LinkedIn, or on Twitter at @TriadBizLillian.
