San Fran Business Times editor Gardner is retiring

James Gardner, the editor in chief of the San Francisco Business Times, announced plans Tuesday to retire in March.

“It has been a fantastic ride spending three of those guiding our coverage of the ups and downs of the Bay Area,” he wrote on LinkedIn. “Now, it’s time to pass the torch.”

Gardner has been with the publication since May 1994. He took the top job in 2023. He is a former managing editor and award-winning editorial writer at the Business Times.

He previously was editor of EuroProperty in London and executive editor of Property Week.

Gardner is a University of Miami (Ohio) 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.