Milwaukee Biz Journal taps Gibbons as next editor

Timothy Gibbons

Timothy Gibbons, the editor of the Jacksonville Business Journal, has been named the editor of the Milwaukee Business Journal, which is also owned by American City Business Journals.

He replaces Mark Kass, who left after 20 years with the publication.

Gibbons joined the Jacksonville Business Journal in 2013 as managing editor after years of reporting and editing that included flying with the Blue Angels, riding on freight trains and sitting through pension fund meetings, He has reported and edited at publications in Germany, Ohio and Pennsylvania as well as freelancing for newspapers and magazines in the United States and Europe.

He previously was business editor of the Florida Times-Union. A native of Pennsylvania, he has a master’s degree from Columbia 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.