Lanka named biz editor at Columbus Dispatch

Ben Lanka

The Columbus Dispatch has named Ben Lanka as its business editor.

He has been editor of the Newark Advocate and The Marion Star, both Gannett papers.

Before that, he was the enterprise editor for 10 Gannett newspapers across Ohio and City Hall reporter for The Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Lanka holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Dayton and a master’s degree from Northwestern University.

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.