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Augusta deputy biz editor becomes editor of newspaper

Joe Hotchkiss

The Augusta Chronicle’s deputy business editor will become editor of its sister publication The Columbia County News-Times.

A story on the News-Times website states, “Joe Hotchkiss will assume his new duties Feb. 26.

“Current CCNT Editor Abbigail Remkus will become the director of communications for the Columbia County Board of Education.

“Hotchkiss, 49, has worked for The Chronicle since 1999, first as a copy editor then as its deputy editorial page editor since 2004. He became deputy business editor last June.

“Before that, he had been editor of two other Georgia newspapers, the Statesboro Herald and The Covington News.”

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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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  • Thanks for the post about Joe! As a journalism major from Georgia Southern University, he is excited to work with Columbia County and offer hyperlocal content and connection to the community.

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