OLD Media Moves

Bell departing Portland Business Journal

Jon Bell

Jon Bell, the commercial real estate reporter at the Portland Business Journal, is leaving the Oregon publication.

His last day is Nov. 1. He has been at the American City Business Journals paper since March 2015.

Bell is going to work for a communications firm in Portland called Gard Communications.

Bell wrote approximately 500 stories in 2018 that garnered more than 1 million total page views and 740,000 visits. He also produced a twice-weekly email newsletter with 9,000 subscribers and a daily newsletter with 19,000 subscribers.

He is the author of a book about Mount Hood and also worked for the Portland Tribune.

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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