Minneapolis/St. Paul Biz Journal names Koening its publisher

Whitney-Lehr Koening

Whitney-Lehr Koening has been named publisher of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.

Koening joined the Business Journal in 2018 as an advertising account manager and was promoted to advertising director in September 2020, then vice president of sales in June 2023.

She previously was Eastern regional sales manager for Auntie B’s and BT McElrath and a sales operations analyst at International Decision Systems.

Koening holds a bachelor’s degree from Sewanee, the University of the South, and an MBA from the University of Minnesota.

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.