SF Biz Times editor in chief Gardner says goodbye

Jim Gardner, the editor in chief of the San Francisco Business Times, writes about retiring.

Gardner writes, “It helps to know I leave the Business Times newsroom in the hands of an extraordinarily talented group of soon-to-be-ex-colleagues. My years here afforded me the opportunity to work with some of the finest journalists this region has produced or attracted. Some are still within our newsroom; many others took their talents elsewhere. In fact, there are few Bay Area news outlets that do not have Business Times DNA somewhere within them. Their efforts help make the Bay Area a better place. If I played even a small part in helping them grow, I am immensely proud.

“Still, retirement is a blind plunge into the unknown, exhilarating and terrifying in equal measures. I haven’t taken three straight weeks off in 30 years, a month in more than 40.”

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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.