Birmingham Biz Journal hires Clark as managing editor

Cara Clark

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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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.