MJBiz CEO Walsh, its founding editor, leaving the company

Chris Walsh

MJBiz CEO Chris Walsh, the company’s founding editor and a leading authority on the marijuana industry, is leaving the cannabis publishing and trade show business in January.

A story on MJBiz states, “Walsh, a veteran business journalist with an MBA from Regis University in Denver, joined MJBiz in 2011 as its founding editor.

“His job: Develop the editorial philosophy and strategy for a company that would focus on the business side of the emerging marijuana industry.

“Over the next decade, Walsh helped to spearhead the company’s efforts to galvanize and professionalize the nascent marijuana industry.”

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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.