Pacific Business News hires Meierdiercks as editor in chief

Janis Magin Meierdiercks

The Pacific Business News, an American City Business Journals publication, has hired Janis Magin Meierdiercks as its editor in chief.

She has been director of communications at the University of Hawaii Foundation for the past three years. Previous editor Kam Napier had led the publication for more than 10 years before leaving more than a month ago.

Meierdiercks previously spent 15 years at Pacific Business News, including stints as senior editor, real estate editor and managing editor.

She also spent 13 years at the Associated Press, including time as a news editor in Honolulu.

Meierdiercks holds a bachelor’s degree from Penn State University and a master’s degree from Boston University.

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.