Biz journalist Greising has a new job

David Greising

Veteran business journalist David Greising has been named chief executive officer of the Better Government Association, reports Robert Feder.

Feder writes, “As head of the nonpartisan watchdog organization, he succeeds Andy Shaw, who stepped down after nine years with the BGA. Greising, a former business columnist and reporter with the Chicago Tribune and the Sun-Times, most recently was Midwest bureau chief for Reuters.

“Calling it an honor to lead the ‘vital civic organization,’ Greising said in a statement: ‘I am committed, as Andy Shaw has been, to vigorously pursuing good government in Illinois. Waste, conflicts of interest, mismanagement and corruption hurt all Illinois taxpayers and citizens, and we deserve better.'”

Read more here. Greising was also a correspondent for BusinessWeek magazine and its Atlanta bureau chief. While in Atlanta, he wrote a biography of Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta.

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.