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Owens named editor in chief of San Fran Business Times

Jeremy Owens

Longtime business journalist Jeremy Owens has been named editor in chief of the San Francisco Business Times.

He takes over for Jim Gardner, who announced his retirement earlier this year. Owens will start April 14.

Owens previously was the tech editor and San Francisco bureau chief at MarketWatch.com, before leaving earlier this year. He had been with the financial website for nearly 10 years.

Owens was previously with the San Jose Mercury News as online breaking news editor focused on business and technology coverage. He also worked at The Argus in Fremont, California, as a news editor.

Owens is a graduate of the University of Georgia.

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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.

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