Ladage named publisher of Milwaukee Business Journal

Heather Ladage

Austin Business Journal publisher Heather Ladage has been named publisher and market president of the Milwaukee Business Journal.

Milwaukee Business Journal editor in chief Mark Kass writes, “Ladage, who has led the Austin Business Journal since 2012, replaces Kira Lafond, who recently retired.

“Ladage joined American City Business Journals, the parent company of the Milwaukee Business Journal, in 2001 as circulation account executive of the Austin Business Journal and was promoted to circulation director in 2002.

“In 2008 she was promoted to regional circulation and audience director for ACBJ before being named publisher in Austin. Ladage and the team in Austin have won six ACBJ Eagle Awards for market performance in the past decade, more than any other market in that timeframe.”

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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.