Beucke named LA Times deputy biz editor

Dan Beucke has been hired as deputy business editor at the Los Angeles Times.

Deirdre Edgar of the Times writes, “Beucke is a veteran, award-winning financial journalist who has run business sections at three different newspapers: the Orange County Register, New York Newsday and the San Jose Mercury News. Most recently, he was the Register’s assistant managing editor in charge of Sunday, enterprise and investigations.

“Prior to returning to Orange County, where he grew up, Beucke spent 15 years at BusinessWeek in New York, where he had several different editing roles, including news editor and senior tech editor.

“Beucke holds two bachelor’s degrees — one in economics from San Jose State University and one in communications from Cal State Fullerton.”

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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.