Albuquerque biz editor leaves for job in government

Charlie Moore

Charlie Moore, the business editor at the Albuquerque Journal, has left the paper for a job in the administration of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.

He is becoming the public information officer for the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department

Moore had been with the paper for more than 36 years, joining in September 1982.

He initially was a reporter and also spent 17 years as the paper’s metro editor. Before the Journal, he worked at The Hartford Courant as a copy editor.

Moore is a University of Connecticut graduate.

Ellen Marks, the paper’s assistant business editor, retired last month.

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.