Palan named deputy biz editor at Philly Inquirer

Erica Palan

Erica Palan has been named the deputy business editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer.

She has been deputy opinion editor for the Inquirer for the past five years.

Palan previously was senior editor for audience development and social media at the newspaper.

She has also been a columnist and digital managing editor for Philadelphia magazine, and arts and entertainment editor for Philadelphia Weekly.

Palan is a Temple University graduate.

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.