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ACBJ executive editor overseeing online is leaving

Huntley Paton

Huntley Paton, executive editor for the online operations at American City Business Journals, is leaving the company next week, according to his Twitter feed.

The Charlotte-based company is the publisher of 43 business journals, as well as Upstart Business Journal and Bizwomen. All of those have websites.

Paton has been in that position since December 2007. Before that, he spent 11 years as the publisher of the Dallas Business Journal, an ACBJ paper.

His career at the company also included stints as managing editor and editor of the Dallas paper, editor of the Pittsburgh Business Times and a staff writer at the San Francisco Business Times, Cincinnati Business Courier and Washington Business Journal.

Paton is also an accomplished photojournalist with experience shooting NFL games and other professional and collegiate sports, including three Super Bowls.

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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