CIO Journal editor Hickins leaves for PR job

Michael Hickins, a senior editor at The Wall Street Journal since November 2009, and the editor of CIO Journal, left earlier this month to accept a position in Oracle public relations.

During his time at The Journal, he has led a premium Web aggregation edition, WSJ Professional, managed the Digits technology blog, and has been interim editor of CFO Journal.

Previously, he was executive editor at Ziff Davis Enterprise, with editorial responsibility for eWEEK, Baseline and CIO Journal. He has also led coverage on InformationWeek’s Digital Life and BNET’s Technology blogs.

Hickins has covered various aspects of business technology since 1984, with notable stops at InternetNews.com, Reuters, and Fairchild Publications.

He holds a B.A. in literature from Columbia College and an M.F.A. in writing from Columbia University.

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.