Longtime SF Biz Times publisher Huss to retire

Mary Huss, who grew the San Francisco Business Times from a fledgling publication to a Bay Area mainstay during a 30-year tenure as publisher, is retiring.

Editor in chief Jim Gardner writes, “In addition to the Business Times, Huss has long been active in the Bay Area business community, previously serving as chair of the Bay Area Council board and as chair and board member of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. She currently serves as vice chair of the San Francisco State University Foundation Board and will become board chair in July.

“She has led the Business Times since 1991, and in 2018 added oversight of the Silicon Valley Business Journal to her responsibilities.

“After earning a journalism degree from University of Missouri, Columbia, helping start up the Riverfront Times in St. Louis and a stint at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, she was part of the startup team at the St. Louis Business Journal, as circulation director, from 1980 to 1986. She joined the Philadelphia Business Journal as advertising sales director in early 1986 and was promoted to publisher in 1988. It was after that when she was asked to head up the San Francisco Business Times.”

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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.