Categories: OLD Media Moves

Baltimore Sun loses biz columnist, gets new biz editor

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.

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.