Sechler named assistant ME at Austin Business Journal

The Austin Business Journal has promoted Bob Sechler to the role of assistant managing editor.

A story on its website states, “Sechler fills a role left vacant after Kathryn Hardison was promoted to managing editor in October. Hardison succeeded Will Anderson, a longtime editor at ABJ, who was promoted to editor-in-chief of the Dallas Business Journal.

“Prior to becoming assistant managing editor, Sechler spent six years at the Austin American-Statesman and 15 years as an Austin-based reporter for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires.

“A longtime Austinite, Sechler brings a wealth of institutional knowledge to the role. He assists with reporting and managing daily operations of the newsroom, and he’s hit the ground running.”

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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.