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Boykin named editor in chief of San Antonio Business Journal

Sam Boykin

Sam Boykin, currently managing editor the Sacramento Business Journal, will be the next editor-in-chief for the San Antonio Business Journal.

A story on the Business Journal website states, “He will begin leading the newsroom in San Antonio on Aug. 16.

“‘Sam has experience as an international journalist and has the small-town roots key in forging relationships in the business community,’ publisher and market president Jimmy Holmes announced Monday. ‘I know he will embrace everything that makes the San Antonio region special and authentic, and in return our business community will welcome him with open arms. I am impressed with his vision for the brand and am confident that our growth and service to the business community will accelerate under his leadership.’

“Boykin started at the Sacramento Business Journal in 2017.”

Read more here.

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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