Categories: OLD Media Moves

Consumer column moves to Tulsa business section

Longtime Tulsa World consumer journalist Phil Mulkins is moving his Action Line column to the business section,Â according to a short story in Thursday’s paper.

The story stated, “Action Line, which answers reader questions, will appear on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Today, the column is on page E-2.

“Mulkins joined the Tulsa World in 1971. He took over as Action Line editor in 1974. The column was started in 1967 at the suggestion of then-mayor Robert LaFortune.

“Also, on Jan. 9 Mulkins will begin contributing stories to the Business sectionâ€™s new weekly Consumer page. The page also will feature personal finance columnist Charles Jaffe.”

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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.