Bomberger, former Miami biz editor, joins Baton Rouge paper

Paul Bomberger

Paul Bomberger, business editor of the Miami Herald for two years, has been hired as metropolitan editor of The Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Bomberger will start the job in January 2025 at the news outlet owned by Georges Media Group, the state’s leading news enterprise that also owns the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Acadiana Advocate and Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate.

Bomberger previously held business and metro editing roles at the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat in California, Houston Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, the Palm Beach Post and Intelligencer Journal in Lancaster, Pa.

Also, he had been managing editor of Business Insurance in Chicago, a Crain publication, and editor-in-chief of Risk & Insurance.

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.