Albuquerque Journal launching daily biz section

The Albuquerque Journal plans to start a daily business section next week, writes publisher William P. Lang.

Lang writes, “The Journal has an incredibly strong business desk with four reporters — editor Ryan Boetel, deputy editor Megan Gleason and reporters Matt Narvaiz and Allison Carpenter — who combined have over two decades of reporting experience.

“We are uniquely positioned to deliver daily breaking news on business across the state and, rather than holding the news into a weekly section, we want to be able to showcase it daily to our readers. The new section, which will keep the Business Outlook branding, will run Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays with an expanded section on Sundays.

“The new Business Outlook daily section will, of course, include our two longtime columnists: Jerry Pacheco, who writes a Business Across the Border column every other week, and Jim Hamill, who writes a column every week called On the Money. And we will be starting new daily features, including a report of how the top 10 stocks important to New Mexico are performing, a daily look at commodities relevant to New Mexico, and regular check ins on municipal bonds and pensions across the state.”

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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.