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Bloomberg Businessweek names new Etc. editor

Bloomberg Businessweek’s editor Josh Tyrangiel announced Tuesday that Julian Sancton has joined the magazine as editor of the “Etc.” section.

Sancton joins Bloomberg Businessweek from Esquire where he most recently served as associate editor.

In this role, he wrote features and front-of the book pieces on film and entertainment, among other topics, and helped launch and oversee Esquire’s iPad app and other mobile endeavors.

He started at Esquirein August 2010, and had been at Vanity Fairsince 2003.

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.