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Boston Globe biz editor moving to opinion section

Mark Pothier, the business editor of the Boston Globe, has been named assistant managing editor for opinion at the paper.

He has been the business editor since July 2013. In December, he oversaw the roll out of a standalone business section at the Globe.

Pothier joined the Globe in 2001, having previously worked as executive editor of a group of weekly newspapers owned by the Patriot Ledger. He completed a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University and then became the first editor of Globe South, the newspaper’s zoned section covering the South Shore.

He later was named an assistant business editor and deputy business editor.

Pothier has edited award-winning Globe projects, including Upper Crust pizza’s exploitation of workers; a series on restaurants mislabeling fish; and exposes on child prostitution and pornography.

He is a graduate of Merrimack College.

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.