Categories: OLD Media Moves

Biz columnist leaves for chamber job

C. Grant Jackson, who was the business editor and later the business columnist for The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C., is leaving the paper to take a job at the local chamber of commerce.

A story Tuesday stated, “Jackson came to The State from the Dayton Daily News in 1996. He was the executive business editor until 2002, when he became the paperâ€™s business columnist.

“‘Like many in this region, I moved here from someplace else and discovered a sense of place and a quality of life that is bursting with potential,’ said Jackson, a 58-year-old Florida native. ‘I truly believe that together we can build the first great Southern community of the new millennium.’

“Jackson led The Stateâ€™s business section when it was twice named Best In Business by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.”

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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.