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Boston Globe names Edelman a biz columnist

Larry Edelman

Larry Edelman, who has been the business editor for the Boston Globe, has been named a business columnist at the paper.

He’ll write about business, finance, and markets, both locally and nationally. He was previously a deputy managing editor at the paper.

Edelman joined the paper at 2015 as business editor. He previously worked at Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal.

At the Journal, he was senior deputy editor, responsible for real-time coverage of markets and finance, and assisted with the planning and editing of the Money & Investing section. He had a decade-long run at Bloombergas a team leader, senior enterprise editor, and managing editor for investing and real estate. He still has many, many fans there.

He previously joined the Globe as a tech reporter in 1989. He moved to assistant business editor, before he had a strong and memorable five-year stint as business editor, ending in 1999.

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.

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