LA Biz Journal taps Welk as editor in chief

Hannah Welk

The Los Angeles Business Journal formally named Hannah Welk as its editor-in-chief last week, making her the 45-year-old publication’s first woman in the role.

Zane Hill of the Business Journal writes, “The job itself isn’t new for her or the department – she’s spent the past six months as interim editor, following the exit of Charlie Crumpley. Welk first joined the Business Journal in 2018 as a real estate reporter and said she was ‘honored” to take on the top role.

“’Serving as the interim editor for the last six months has been an incredible experience and I’m excited to continue to build upon the publication’s legacy,’ she added.

“Welk, a 2014 graduate of USC, hit the ground running when she took on interim duties in late January and oversaw the Business Journal’s shift of its sister publication, the biweekly San Fernando Valley Business Journal, into the bimonthly Inside The Valley magazine.”

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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.