Jon Chesto, the business editor of the Quincy Patriot Ledger for the past eight years, has left the paper to take a job at the Boston Business Journal.
He will become managing editor of print for the American City Business Journals paper.
Chesto writes, “For my first Mass. Market column in 2004, I predicted that the Legislature would turn that year’s sales tax holiday debut into an annual event. I wish I could say I was equally prescient for all of the nearly 400 columns I penned for the Ledger since that one. No one is that fortunate.
“But I have been lucky in other ways. Lucky to have such a talented team of coworkers here at the Ledger. Lucky to have such a wealth of topics to cover. Lucky to have such an interesting – and interested – group of readers who make all this key-pounding worthwhile.
“This, I’m sad to say, will be my last column in the weekend Ledger. I’m leaving a job that I’ve loved in a great region of a great state. I’ll still be covering the Boston area’s business scene. But it won’t be the same as this gig.
“We’ve been through a lot. Haven’t we? We’ve seen some rough times, what with the layoffs and the scams and the blatant government mismanagement.
