Bessette promoted to special sections editor at Providence Biz News

James Bessette

James Bessette, a researcher at Providence Business News, has been promoted to special sections editor.

“Appreciate the people here and the chance to keep building a solid product,” he wrote on Twitter.

Bessette has been with the publication since February 21018. He previously was a copy editor at the Newport Daily News and a reporter for the North Kingstown Independent, which are both Rhode Island newspapers. He is president of the Rhode Island Press Association.

He also worked at the East Greenwich Pendulum.

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.