Albuquerque Biz First names Brooks its editor in chief

Sharon Brooks

Sharon Brooks has been named editor in chief of Albuquerque Business First. She will start Dec. 2.

She replaces Meagan Nichols, who has been named director of editorial training for the paper’s parent company, American City Business Journals,

Brooks has been managing editor of the San Antonio Business Journal, a sister publication.

Before joining the Business Journal in February 2023, Brooks was the business editor of the Examiner in Beaumont, Texas. She also spent time as its city editor.

Brooks is a graduate of Lamar University. Before entering journalism, she worked as a paralegal.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.