Florida Trends hires Chachere as executive editor

Vickie Chachere

Florida Trend, a business magazine, has hired Vickie Chachere as its executive editor.

She spent the last 13 years at the University of South Florida in public relations and strategic communications.

Chachere previously was an editorial writer and a senior reporter at The Tampa Tribune.

She also worked for five years for the Associated Press overseeing news operations in west central Florida. Chachere was recognized as a 2001 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Public Service as a member of the Associated Press team whose comprehensive coverage of the 2000 presidential election recount provided global communications through an unprecedented crisis.

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.