Categories: OLD Media Moves

Business editor adds features desk

Sherri Richards, the business editor at the Fargo Forum in North Dakota, is adding the features desk to her responsibilities.

The features editor, Heidi Shaffer, is becoming the paper’s deputy editor.

A story on the Forum website states, “Richards, 34, was named business editor last year. The Hope, N.D., native started at The Forum in 2002. The University of North Dakota graduate was a features reporter, news reporter and columnist before being named business editor. In her new role, she’ll continue to oversee business, and also lead features, which consists of the Variety, SheSays and Farmers’ Forum sections.

“‘Sherri, too, brings a variety of great background to the dual role of features/business editor,’ said Von Pinnon. ‘She has proven herself with great reporting instincts and excellent organizational skills, and comes up with great story ideas at every turn.'”

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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.