Hardison promoted to ME at Austin Business Journal

Kathryn Hardison

The Austin Business Journal has promoted assistant managing editor Kathryn Hardison to managing editor.

She had rejoined the American City Business Journals publication in August. Hardison replaces Will Anderson, who left the paper to become editor in chief of the Dallas Business Journal.

Hardison had covered economic development for the Austin publication from September 2020 to March 2022 and then was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal for a year. She also worked as a reporter for the Springfield Business Journal.

Hardison is a graduate of the University of Missouri. She worked for the Columbia Missourian while in college.

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.