D CEO magazine names Cote its new publisher

Ernie Cote

Ernie Cote has been hired as the new publisher of D CEO magazine in Dallas.

A story on its website states, “He’ll oversee advertising and marketing operations for the magazine and its news site, as well as online verticals D CEO Healthcare and D CEO Real Estate, plus the Dallas 500, D Real Estate Annual, and other ancillary publications.

“Cote comes to D Magazine Partners after serving as CEO of Dallas-based ChemicalInfo, a trade publishing company and provider of online databases for chemical and pharmaceutical companies. He oversaw the sale of ChemicalInfo to IQVIA Holdings Inc. in August 2018.

“Prior to this, Cote was president of Dallas-based digital agency Vertical Nerve, which helped companies grow their online revenue through search marketing and digital analytics conversion. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Copper Mobile, CalcuQuote, and SmartLight Analytics.”

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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.