Atlanta paper names Sunday biz editor

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE

Business columnist and blogger Henry Unger has been named the Sunday business editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Unger tells Talking Biz News that he may still write the occasional column. He became a columnist in 2009 after working as the sports and enterprise business editor.

The Sunday section is the only standalone business section for the Atlanta paper. During the rest of the week, the business section appears inside the A section.

In 20 years at the paper, Henry Unger has spent most of his time covering a variety of business beats, including Coca-Cola Co., Turner Broadcasting and sports business. Unger, a native of the Bronx, N.Y., also was deputy business editor and was in charge of the paper’s coverage of the G-8 Summit on Sea Island in 2004.

Before coming to Atlanta, the Queens College graduate worked as a journalist for several news organizations in Los Angeles, including the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.

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.