OLD Media Moves

Sams named editor of Atlanta Business Chronicle

Doug Sams

The Atlanta Business Chronicle has named Doug Sams as editor in chief, effective immediately.

A story on its website states, “‘I have observed how Doug has worked with our current newsroom team over the past four months and believe he is the right person to take the Chronicle to the next level,’ said David Rubinger, market president and publisher of the Chronicle.

“Sams has worked as interim co-editor in chief since the beginning of the year.”

Read more here.

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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