Denver Biz Journal publisher Pitts is retiring

Kevin Pitts

Denver Business Journal publisher Kevin Pitts announced his retirement Tuesday.

Business Journal editor in chief Kourtney Geers writes, “He has held the role in the Mile High City since October 2018, when he relocated from North Carolina. Pitts previously served as publisher and market president of the Charlotte Business Journal starting in 2008. Both media companies are part of Charlotte-based American City Business Journals, publisher of local business news and data in 45 markets stretching from Hawaii to Miami.

“‘Denver has been an exciting place to be a business journal publisher and I’m so grateful for my time here, with ACBJ, and will enjoy watching the talented team at DBJ and ACBJ continue to innovate and impress in a rapidly changing industry,’ Pitts said.

“Pitts joined ACBJ in 2000 as advertising director at the Philadelphia Business Journal. He was promoted to publisher of the East Bay Business Times in 2003, where he served for two and a half years before returning to Philadelphia as vice president for advertising and circulation. He led the Charlotte Business Journal for 10 years, leaving for Denver in 2018.”

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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.