Categories: OLD Media Moves

California paper promotes biz editor to ME, hires new biz editor

Jana Adkins, the business editor of the Santa Clarita Valley Signal in California, has been promoted to managing editor of the paper.

Matt Thacker of the paper writes, “Paul Parcellin, who has been a freelance reporter for the Business Journal the last three months, was hired as the new business editor. He will oversee The Signal’s business page and, under the direction of Adkins, the Santa Clarita Valley Business Journal.

“Parcellin is a Santa Clarita resident with three decades of experience in the news industry, including various positions at daily newspapers. He served as deputy editor for PC Week magazine in the late 1990s as the technology sector was booming.

“‘Paul is a skilled writer with an easy-going style when working with his interview subjects. A perfect fit for the local business community,’ Adkins said. ‘We look forward to the fresh ideas he’s bringing to the newspaper and SCV Business Journal pages.'”

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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.