Orange County Biz Journal hires Koch as its editor

Neal Koch

Neal Koch has been hired by the Orange County Business Journal as its editor in chief.

He previously was a consulting editor and executive editor of the Pacific Coast Business Times from October 2022 to June 2023.

Before that, he was deputy editor and contributing editor at the Los Angeles Business Journal.

Koch has also been a staff writer and acting business editor at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Haverford College and a master’s degree from Columbia University. He also has a law degree from Case Western Reserve.

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.