Boone named biz editor at Baton Rouge newspaper

Timothy Boone

Timothy Boone has been named business editor at the Baton Rouge Advocate in Louisiana.

He has been a business reporter at the paper for the past nine years covering retail, real estate and economic development and will still be reporting.

Boone previously was the online news editor at the Baton Rouge Business Report and a business reporter for the Biloxi Sun-Herald. And he previously worked at the Advocate from 2004 to 2006. He also worked at the newspapers in Pascagoula, Mississippi, New Iberia, Louisiana, and Alexandria, Louisiana.

Boone is a Louisiana State University graduate.

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.