Categories: OLD Media Moves

Biz editor promoted at Indiana paper

Paul Mullaney, the business editor of theÂ Munster Times newspaper in northwest Indiana, has been promoted to managing editor, according to a story in Sunday’s paper.

Keith Benman wrote, “Mullaney, 48, has served in a variety of posts in 18 years at the newspaper, including those of sports editor, managing editor for newsroom operations and most recently business editor.

“‘Paul brings all the traits of an accomplished journalist to his new role plus his long-standing knowledge of our community,’ said William Nangle, Times executive editor. ‘He is the ideal fit to manage the day-to-day operations of The Times newsroom.'”

Benman later reported that Bill Bero, 54, has been appointed business editor for The Times. He currently edits the Times publication BusINess magazine.

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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.