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Star Tribune names Ramstad its business columnist

Evan Ramstad

Evan Ramstad, an editor at the Star Tribune business news section, will become the newest columnist in the section, starting Jan. 1.

A story on its website states, “An Iowa native, Ramstad, 57, has also worked as a reporter and editor in Dallas, New York, Washington, Hong Kong and Seoul. He spent most of his career covering technology companies in the Midwest and Asia.

“For the last nine years, he’s been a deputy editor at the Star Tribune, chiefly responsible for reporters covering real estate, retail and the economy.

“He has occasionally written feature stories, including one about Korean soups for the Taste section, and led a redesigned Monday section with features that help readers manage their businesses and personal finances.

“In columns to be published on Sundays and Wednesdays, Ramstad will write about Minnesota’s business owners, executives and innovators with a regular focus on the effects of a new phenomenon in the state economy — a shrinking workforce.”

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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