Boston Biz Journal digital editor Stendahl is leaving

Max Stendahl

Max Stendahl, a digital editor for the Boston Business Journal, is leaving the paper to join a PR firm.

Stendahl is becoming a biotech communications specialist at Ten Bridge Communications. He has also covered biotech and higher education for the Business Journal.

As digital editor, he has helped manage a team of reporters covering the region’s health care, life sciences, technology, banking, law and real estate industries.

Stendahl joined the Business Journal in November 2016 after working six years at Law 360. He spent four years covering white collar crime in Manhattan.

He’s a graduate of Villanova University in political science and English.

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.