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Kennedy departing Columbus Biz First

Eleanor Kennedy

Columbus Business First assistant managing editor Eleanor Kennedy is leaving the American City Business Journals publication to become senior director of digital content at the Columbus Dispatch.

She joined Columbus Business First in 2019.

Before that, she was a senior reporter at the Nashville Business Journal covering the Music City’s tourism, hospitality and music business industries.

She has been in Nashville since January 2014 and initially covered health care and technology for the ACBJ paper. Before that, she spent 17 months at the News & Advance in Lynchburg, Virginia, as a business reporter.

Kennedy is a Washington & Lee University graduate.

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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