Categories: OLD Media Moves

Austin Biz Journal publisher to retire

Austin Business Journal publisher Lyn Chasteen has announced her retirement from the American City Business Journals paper.

Austin editor Colin Pope writes, “Chasteen, who has led the paper as publisher for the past 14 years, spent 20 years with ABJ’s parent company, Charlotte, N.C.-based American City Business Journals, including stints at the Dallas and Jacksonville business journals.

“A search for her replacement has been launched.

“Chasteen said she is leaving the paper to pursue her ‘next great adventure.’

“‘I’ve had the pleasure of working with a great staff and appreciate the opportunity I’ve had to connect with some of the brightest minds in our business community,’ Chasteen said. ‘The ABJ is privileged to have been awarded several prestigious awards in the past decade — including one for general excellence this year — and we’re looking at our seventh straight year of subscriber growth. I look forward to reading the ABJ online and in print to keep me on top of local business 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.