Categories: OLD Media Moves

Dallas Biz Journal publisher leaves for job at HQ running Internet site

Huntley Paton, who has been the publisher of the Dallas Business Journal for 11 years and was its editor before that, is leaving for a job at the paper’s headquarters in Charlotte to become executive editor of bizjournals.com.

Dallas Business Journal staff writer Lauren D’Avolio wrote, “‘I’m excited about the chance to go back and work on editorial content and development exclusively. That’s my background and my strongest area of talent,’ Paton said. ‘This is a completely unique opportunity, really beyond what I would have hoped.’

“Paton intends to make the DBJ’s Web site, along with all others in the American City Business Journals chain, a first-choice destination for businesspeople in Dallas and nationwide.

“New leadership in the publisher’s position will be good for the DBJ and its readership, Paton said, because it allows for more innovation.

“‘I think the DBJ is one of the best business journals in America. The product the newsroom provides is a reflection of a great market,’ Paton said. ‘It doesn’t really get any better than Dallas as a business city.'”

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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.

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