Birmingham Biz Journal hires Clark as managing editor

The Birmingham Business Journal has hired Cara Clark as its managing editor.

Dan Bagwell of the Business Journal writes, “Clark, a graduate of Auburn University, comes to the Birmingham Business Journal after spending seven years as a freelance writer and editor. Her work has recently been featured in Birmingham Home and Garden, Business Alabama, Good Grit, Birmingham Medical News, the Montgomery Advertiser, Executive Traveler, Portico, Alabama Weddings, Victoria and others.

“Also during her journalism tenure, Clark spent time as a journalist embedded with troops in Afghanistan during two stints in 2010. While there she flew on emergency and routine missions with Medevac troops in combat zones, rode along and covered work of route clearance crews, agribusiness development teams, soldier training of Afghan National Army forces, provincial reconstruction teams, military police training of Afghan police officers, combat missions of Alabama National Guard soldiers, International Security Assistance Force missions and more.”

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