Baruch College’s newspaper celebrates 35 years of a business section

Caryl Anne Francia, the business editor of The Ticker, Baruch College’s newspaper, writes about its 35-year-old business section.

Francia writes, “During the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, the section rebranded into the ‘Business and Technology’ section on Nov. 10, 1999, under Graceann Hall. She would go on to become The Ticker’s first and only executive editor to date during the 2000-2001 academic year.

“This version of the business section would be managed under five more editors through three years. The more infamous one of the bunch would be Martin Shkreli, who The Ticker has written about over the past 10 years regarding his business affairs and time in prison. He ran the section through three issues from February 2002 to March 2002, notably writing about the lessons learned at a panel revisiting the Enron Corp. scandal.

“But the section dropped out of circulation again in September 2002 with Sulexan Chery as its last editor. It wouldn’t be until another four years that Business rebounded, with this third revival still running to this date.”

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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.