Maine paper hires Hall as business editor

William Hall

The Portland (Maine) Press Herald has hired William Hall as its business editor.

Hall was previously digital editor at MaineBiz.

He spent most of his career in marketing and public relations, rising to high-level roles at major firms. He was vice president at Manning Selvage & Lee in Boston, vice president at HMS Holdings in New York and senior vice president at Porter Novelli.

Hall is a Princeton 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.