Baltimore Biz Journal hires Davis as special projects editor

Phil Davis

The Baltimore Business Journal has hired Phil Davis as its special projects editor.

He will start at the American City Business Journals paper in 2022.

Davis has been at the Baltimore Sun for the past five years as a crime reporter. Originally from New Jersey, he has worked in journalism for the past eight years, working at newspapers in New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland.

“The past five years as part of The Baltimore Sun Media Group have been some of the more instructive and incredible years of my life and those who are still there know I won’t become a stranger,” he wrote on Twitter.

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.