Categories: OLD Media Moves

Connecticut daily names new business editor

Alec Johnson, the Torrington bureau chief for the Waterbury Republican-American, has been named the business editor for the daily.

He will start his new role in September. He replaces Dave Krechevsky, who had been business editor since 2004.

Johnson joined the staff in August 2010 after graduating from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Before Columbia, Johnson interned at the Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times and served as editor-in-chief of a student-run weekly at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Penn.

A 2009 graduate of Dickinson, Johnson has a bachelor’s in political science. While at Phillips Exeter Academy, he was an intern for Congressman John McHugh.

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.