Categories: OLD Media Moves

ACBJ hires director of social

Haley Crum, who previously worked in social media for The Washington Post, has been hired as director of social for American City Business Journals.

She will be based at the company’s Charlotte headquarters. A company representative declined to discuss details of her position.

American City Business Journals operates 43 weekly business newspapers throughout the country.

For the past 13 months Crum has been a social media specialist for Compucast in New Orleans, where she has been writing blog posts, takes photos and creates videos for high-traffic portal sites, like ExperienceNewOrleans.com and NewOrleansRestaurants.com, and for multiple local clients.

Crum previously was an engagement producer for The Post, where she co-managed The Post’s main social media accounts, including Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Instagram, YouTube and Google+. While there, she also created multimedia content based on what was trending online, including aggregation files, blog posts, live chats, social add-ons, photo galleries and more.

Crum is a University of Mississippi graduate.

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.