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Acuris hires Armstrong to open Charlottesville bureau

Joshua Armstrong

Acuris, which owns Mergermarket and Dealreporter, has hired Joshua Armstrong to be its Southeast bureau chief in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Armstrong had been an industry editor for S&P Global Market Intelligence for the past three years, managing a staff of five reporters. He oversaw regulatory and congressional coverage for bank and thrift news. 

He previously was an associate editor and an associate copy editor for SNL Financial, which was acquired by S&P. He also worked at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in Alaska.

Armstrong holds degrees from the University of Florida and Arizona State University.

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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