Jay Rickey of CityBizList Baltimore reports that the Baltimore Sun business columnist Jay Hancock is leaving the paper, and that its business section is getting a new business editor.
Rickey writes, “Sources tell citybizlist that Hancock is leaving The Baltimore Sun to work for Kaiser Health News in Washington, D.C. covering health insurance companies.
“Hancock has worked at the Sun for 18 years. He was previously with the Virginian-Pilot.
“The Baltimore Sun is also getting a new business editor, Chris Dinsmore, who starts on Monday. He was also previously at the Virginian-Pilot.”
Read more here. Dinsmore became the Virginian Pilot business editor in 2008. Dinsmore joining The Pilot in 1993 as the retail reporter. Two years later, he took on the port/railroad/shipyard beat, covering, among other stories, Norfolk Southern’s takeover of Conrail and the strike at what was then Newport News Shipbuilding.
He later covered real estate and economic development in the boom years of the early 2000s, getting out just in time before the market collapsed to become assistant business editor in 2005.
