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Houston Biz Journal hires Ponder as managing editor

Erica Ponder

The Houston Business Journal has hired Erica Ponder to be its managing editor.

Ponder has been an editor at Vaskey Media Group in Houston. She also spent four years as a digital content producer for KPRC in Houston.

Ponder also worked at KIAH-TV and ABC13 in digital content roles.

Ponder has a Bachelor of Arts in mass communication from Prairie View A&M University and a Master of Arts in digital media from Sam Houston State University.

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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