Boston Biz Journal hires Burns as associate editor

Hilary Burns

The Boston Business Journal has hired Hilary Burns to be associate editor.

She started on Monday. She will be doing data-driven journalism and digging into stories and special projects in different industries.

Burns has been covering community banking at American Banker. She previously covered banking, technology and entrepreneurship at the Charlotte Business Journal.

Burns also completed a month-long journalism fellowship in Boston with the GroundTruth Project where she will be reporting on the lack of women in technology leadership roles.

She also spent 11 months as a reporter for the ACBJ-owned Bizwomen site. Burns is a Wake Forest 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.