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AP names Shinkle acting business editor

The Associated Press has named Kevin Shinkle as acting business editor as current business editor Hal Ritter moves to news and becomes acting weekend editor, according to an internal memo obtained Monday by Talking Biz News.

Shinkle has been deputy business editor of the AP since April 2011. He oversees the day-to-day operations of AP’s business editors and reporters worldwide.

He joined the AP in 2008 as an assistant business editor, directing AP’s coverage of the financial markets. Prior to the AP, he was business editor and deputy business editor of The Star-Ledger newspaper in Newark, NJ. Under his direction, the Star-Ledger’s Business section was honored five times for General Excellence in the SABEW Best in Business contest and reporters there won numerous SABEW awards. He also worked as a reporter at Bloomberg News, The Tampa Tribune and The Chapel Hill Newspaper.

Shinkle is a Hillsdale College graduate.

Shinkle is a SABEW board member and the co-chair of its fall conference, which will be held in New York on Oct. 3 and Oct. 4.

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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