Categories: OLD Media Moves

Business editor returns to paper

Damon Cline, the business editor of the Augusta Chronicle from 2000 to 2008, has returned to the paper as an editorial writer.

An editor’s note on the paper’s website states, “His duties will include writing editorials and assisting the staff with production of the daily Opinion section.

“He previously served the Chronicle as a business reporter from 1998 to 2000, and as business editor from 2000 to 2008. Cline, an Augusta resident since 1997, has also been employed in communications, public relations and production positions at Georgia Regents University, Southern Co. and John Deere Commercial Products.

“‘I’m excited to be back at The Chronicle,’ he said. ‘It almost feels like I never left.’

“Cline earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northern Arizona University.”

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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.