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Finance & Commerce editor Schettler departs for book publisher

Joel Schettler

Joel Schettler, the editor in chief of Minneapolis-based Finance & Commerce, has left the business publication to become managing editor at Advantage/Forbes Books.

He had been editor in chief for the past three years.

Schettler was managing editor of enterprise marketing and communications at CHS Inc. from September 2014 to September 2017.

He previously spent 11 years as editor of Greenspring Media’s custom publishing division, overseeing a team of editors who worked to create print magazines and electronic media for targeted audiences. The titles included travel magazines such as Where Twin Cities and Minnesota Monthly’s travel blog Minnesota Journeys, and consumer titles such as Drinks and Real Food.

Prior to joining Greenspring in 2003, he was a senior editor at Training magazine, a monthly business publication that covers human resources and executive management issues.

Schettler holds a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota in sociology and the business of magazine publishing. He is also a graduate of the University of Nebraska, earning bachelor’s degrees in English and journalism.

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.

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