Orlando Biz Journal taps Bilbao to be associate ME

Richard Bilbao

The Orlando Business Journal has named Richard Bilbao is associate managing editor.

He has been at the American City Business Journals paper for 15 years.

Bilbao previously was a senior staff writer and digital producer covering the industries of tourism, travel, hotels, attractions and sports.

He graduated in December 2008 with a bachelors degree in journalism with a minor in anthropology from the University of Central Florida. During his time at UCF, he worked freelance for the Central Florida Future.

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.