Washington Biz Journal promotes Proctor to data and projects editor

Carolyn Proctor

The Washington Business Journal has promoted Carolyn Proctor to data and projects editor.

She’ll now be helping us with special projects, such as the Best Places to Work, LGBTQ Business Leaders and Fastest Growing Companies sections.

Proctor has been working in data reporting for the Business Journals since 1999, beginning as a researcher in Baltimore before moving to Washington in 2014. In addition to producing the Lists and Book of Lists, she also produces special projects like wealthiest ZIP codes and Best Places to Work.

She is a graduate of St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where she studied anthropology,

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.