Denver Biz Journal hires Rourke as managing editor

Christine Rourke

The Denver Business Journal has hired Christine Rourke as its new managing editor, reports associate editor Angela Ufheil.

Ufheil reports, “Rourke began at the DBJ on Jan. 31. She most recently served as deputy editor at the Denver Gazette where she coordinated the story planning, editing and writing that went into the production of the daily newspaper.

“Prior to her arrival at the Denver Gazette, Rourke was a university communications officer at Western Colorado University.

“Rourke also spent 12 years working at the Gunnison Country Times. There, Rourke took on many roles, acting as a reporter, photographer and editor before becoming the editor in chief of the paper.”

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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.