Austin Biz Journal promotes Anderson to managing editor

Will Anderson

Austin Business Journal has promoted Will Anderson from digital editor to managing editor.

A story on its website states, “Anderson now manages the ABJ newsroom’s day-to-day operations under longtime Editor Colin Pope, and Anderson will oversee the weekly edition’s Venture section highlighting startups and entrepreneurs.

“‘Will is a big reason why ABJ continues to buck journalism trends by growing paid subscribers each and every year without fail,’ Editor Colin Pope said. ‘Just a few weeks ago the Texas Press Association honored his work with a ‘best website’ award. He has been a fantastic steward of our digital side, and I’m excited to see where he takes the newsroom with this larger focus and responsibility.’

“Anderson has been the newspaper’s digital editor since 2015. He cut his teeth on business journalism at the ABJ in 2009 as an intern.”

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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.