The Business Record has hired two new reporters, Gigi Wood and Lisa Rossi, who will support our mission of helping businesses do business better. Wood and Rossi both joined the Business Record in late February. 

Wood has joined the team as a senior staff writer and will cover economic development, government policy and law, agriculture, energy, and manufacturing. A Des Moines native and graduate of the University of Iowa, she has more than 20 years of experience as a writer and editor, including in business journalism.

She worked as a senior writer and editor at the Corridor Business Journal and most recently served as managing editor for a business-to-business publishing company in Wisconsin, overseeing several national publications. She has also authored two books and owned a small business.

Rossi will serve as a staff writer covering innovation and entrepreneurship, insurance, health care, and Iowa Stops Hunger, a BPC initiative focused on hunger and food insecurity in Iowa. In her role, Lisa will lead reporting for the Business Record’s innovationIOWA Weekly e-newsletter and the annual innovationIOWA Magazine.

Rossi is originally from Dike in eastern Iowa. She started her career in journalism more than 15 years ago as a reporter at the Des Moines Register followed by several editor roles at publications across the country. She completed the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University, where she learned about entrepreneurship and design thinking. She then started a business providing innovation consulting to companies.

For the last several years, she has been based in Des Moines working as a freelance writer, including bylines for the Business Record and dsm magazine.

With the addition of these two experienced journalists to the team, the Business Record newsroom looks forward to continuing to provide the news and analysis the business community needs to stay informed and connected.

Wood can be reached via email at gigiwood@bpcdm.com or on her LinkedIn page and Rossi at lisarossi@bpcdm.com or on her LinkedIn page.