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Mellott named publisher of Austin Business Journal

Abby Mellott

Abby Mellott has been named publisher of the Austin Business Journal.

A story on its website states, “She replaces Heather Ladage, who recently was named president and publisher of the Milwaukee Business Journal.

“She joined ACBJ, which operates more than 40 business journals across the U.S., in 2006 as a circulation sales executive at the Washington Business Journal and was promoted to circulation and marketing director in 2008. In 2010, she was named audience development director at the Austin Business Journal before moving to ACBJ’s corporate headquarters in Charlotte in 2015 as a regional audience development director. She started leading the Triad Business Journal in 2018.”

Read more here.

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.

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