Houston Biz Journal ME Adams departs

Jonathan Adams

Jonathan Adams, the managing editor of the Houston Business Journal, has left to become deputy editor of Professional Products Association International.

He had also been the associate editor of the American City Business Journals publication.

Prior to joining the Business Journal, Adams worked at the regional design center at Lee Enterprises as a page designer. There, he edited, designed and coordinated with 10 papers across the nation. Prior to that, he was sports editor, reporter and photographer at the Williamson County Sun in Georgetown, Texas.

He received his Bachelor of Journalism degree at Texas A&M University — Kingsville.

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.