Post-Dispatch hires Gassen to be business editor

Sarah Gassen

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has hired Sarah Garrecht Gassen to be its business editor.

Gassen previously was opinion editor and a columnist at the Arizona Daily Star. She was also the mentoring and apprentice program director at the paper.

She had been at the Daily Star since April 1997 and also taught at the University of Arizona as an adjunct.

Gassen holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Arizona.

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.