Categories: OLD Media Moves

Arkansas magazine adds business editor

Talk Business & Politics contributor Wes Brown has been brought on full-time to lead the publication’s business section.

Sean Beherec of Arkansas Business writes, “TB&P recently announced that Brown, who has previously served as business editor at Stephens Media’s Arkansas News Bureau, will lead an expansion of content as its business editor.

“‘I have known and worked with Wes Brown for years and am thrilled that he has agreed to take on new duties to drive our business news coverage,’ Editor-in-Chief Roby Brock said in a statement. ‘Our readers will find his reporting and analysis thorough and insightful.’

“The publication also announced it was launching two podcasts to focus on business and politics.

“The first ‘Talk Business’ will be co-hosted by Brown and Brock and “will feature interviews, analysis and deeper coverage of big stories in the business arena, the publication said.”

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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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