South Florida Biz Journal hires Gonzalez as managing editor

Fred Gonzalez

The South Florida Business Journal has hired Fred Gonzalez to be its managing editor.

Gonzalez most recently was senior content and partnership strategist for Ink Global, a travel media company that produces in-flight magazines and websites for airlines such as United Airlines and Virgin Atlantic.

He also spent 12 years at the Miami Herald in editing positions and more than three years at the Washington Post. Gonzalez also worked at The State in South Carolina as a reporter and editor.

He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina.

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.