Houston Biz Journal taps Pelter to be its publisher

Traci Pelter

Traci Pelter has been named publisher of the Houston Business Journal, an American City Business Journals publication.

She replaces Bob Charlet, who is retiring at the end of the year.

Pelter has been vice president of sales at the publication, where she has worked for the past four years. She previously spent almost 20 years at Pace Communications, where she managed sales for Southwest Airlines’ Inflight magazine, print and digital edition.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas and a master’s degree from UNLV.

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.