A successor worthy of the job at the Albany Business Review

Melissa Mangini

Mike Hendricks, the retiring editor of the Albany Business Review, writes about his successor.

Hendricks writes, “The big news is that Melissa Mangini will be taking over responsibility of the newsroom as the editor-in-chief starting in the new year, when I retire from this job that I have truly loved the past 18 years.

“As managing editor, Melissa has essentially been the newsroom’s chief operating office the past three years, working every day with every reporter and overseeing the weekly newspaper.

“Melissa deserves a lot of the credit for the success of the Business Review’s newsroom since she joined us seven years ago and she is ideally suited for the challenges of taking the Business Review newsroom into the future. She knows the digital world, she knows journalism, and she knows our audience.”

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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.