Boeing reporter leaving Puget Sound Biz Journal after 28 years

Seve WIlhelm

Steve Wilhelm, the Boeing and manufacturing reporter who has been at the Puget Sound Business Journal for the past 28 years, is leaving the American City Business Journal paper on May 31.

Wilhelm writes, “Week after week we’ve punched out breaking, important stories about this region and its businesses. The pace has been relentless, but it’s always been fresh and fun. I’ll miss it.

“I’ve been here so long that I can remember trying to convince a former publisher that each of us needed our own computer. Back in the early days, when Puget Sound Business Journal was solely a weekly printed newspaper, we thought in terms of four stories weekly, most of them complex enterprise stories.

“Now we’re writing in a new world of digital journalism, and the pace is more like two or three stories daily. But digital journalism has had its own rewards – particularly a sense of being connected to readers and their responses – in a way that was never possible before.”

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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.