Albuquerque Journal names Gleason its assistant biz editor

Megan Gleason

Megan Gleason has been named assistant business editor at the Albuquerque Journal.

Gleason is a reporter on the business desk covering energy, utilities and government.

She previously was a reporting fellow at Source New Mexico through the New Mexico Local News Fund.

Gleason is a graduate of the University of New Mexico with a degree in music performance and journalism. While in school, she was editor-in-chief of the New Mexico Daily Lobo.

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.