Milwaukee Biz Journal promotes Lesk to managing editor

Sari Lesk

Reporter Sari Lesk has been promoted to managing editor at the Milwaukee Business Journal.

Editor in chief Mark Kass writes, “Sari joined the paper in September 2018 after previously working at the Racine Journal Times and the Stevens Point Journal.

“She also spent nine months as a fellow at Marquette University as part of the O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism. Her resulting special report on the flight of banks in southeastern Wisconsin won a 2022 Best in Business Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

“Sari has done a great job covering retail, restaurants, education and banking for the paper. I look forward to Sari using her skills to help continue our newsroom’s outstanding performance both on the web and in print.”

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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.