ROI-NJ senior ME Strauss departs for law firm

Eric Strauss

Eric Strauss, senior managing editor of New Jersey business news publication ROI-NJ, has left to become a marketing and communications specialist for the Greenberg Traurig law firm.

He has been with ROI-NJ since it started in September 2017.

Strauss previously was managing editor of NJBiz. Strauss had also been the publication’s digital content editor, responsible for oversight of the website, NJBIZ.com. He helped to grow readership more than 65 percent over two years.

Before joining NJBiz, he was advancement director of communications at Centenary College in New Jersey.

He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon 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.