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Bay Area News Group/San Jose Mercury News hires Parker as assistant biz editor

Leia Parker

Leia Parker, who left her position as managing editor of the Silicon Valley Business Journal in October, has been hired as assistant business editor of the Bay Area News Group/San Jose Mercury News.

“I’m excited to be a part of the Bay Area News Group team and to continue covering Silicon Valley, the world’s leading technology hub,” said Parker in a message to Talking Biz News.

Parker had been with the Silicon Valley Business Journal for two years. The Bay Area News Group also includes the East Bay Times, The Argus in Fremont, The Daily Review in Hayward and the Oakland Tribune.

Parker oversaw real-time digital news for the American City Business Journals publication. She also oversaw the publication of three daily email newsletters containing coverage of trends in Silicon Valley technology, real estate and economic development.

Before joining the paper in September 2014, Parker was Dow Jones Newswires managing editor for energy and commodities coverage in Europe, Middle East and Africa, based in London. She also worked for Dow Jones in New York as an energy reporter and supervising the U.S. petroleum team.

Parker received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Brigham Young University and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She started at Dow Jones as a reporter and an assistant news editor in 2000.

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.

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