Credit Union Journal editor Passman, ME Stewart depart

Aaron Passman

Credit Union Journal is now part of American Banker and is no longer a separate brand, and editor in chief Aaron Passman and managing editor Jackie Stewart have left in the past few months.

Passman is now editor in chief of Paperwork Studios, which publishes The Filament and Fundwise.

He became editor in September 2018. Passman spent nearly five years as a reporter at CU Journal and was appointed assistant managing editor in 2016.

Jaclyn Stewart

Stewart is now senior retirement editor at Kiplinger and Kiplinger’s Retirement Report, which she joined in January. She also worked at American Banker as a community banking reporter and deputy managing editor.

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.