Categories: OLD Media Moves

Al Lewis named South Florida Business Journal editor

Al Lewis, a former Wall Street Journal and Marketwatch.com columnist, has been named editor of the South Florida Business Journal, an American City Business Journals paper.

Lewis writes, “American Cities Business Journals, which owns the publication, has made an impressive transition over the past few years, adding websites and mobile apps to its traditional base of weekly print publications in 40 U.S. cities. It is now firmly positioned as a business news reporting powerhouse in the digital age.

“I’m especially pleased to joining this company in South Florida, a vibrant microcosm of the global economy, where billionaires flock to buy real estate and immigrants of more modest means come to chase the American Dream. Telling their stories, as part of a dedicated team of journalists, will be a great adventure.

“I will miss writing columns for The Wall Street Journal and Marketwatch. To keep up with my Florida adventures, follow me on Twitter @tellittoal.com and on hit the “like” button on my Facebook page, www.facebook.com/tellittoal2.”

Read more here. Lewis was also a business columnist for the Denver Post.

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.