Denver Post names new deputy biz editor

Greg Griffin has been named the deputy business editor at the Denver Post.

He replaces Kristi Arellano, who moved up to the business editor slot late last year.

Griffin has been a reporter and editor at The Post for 13 years. He received his bachelor’s degree from Colorado College. In 2007-08 he was a Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University, earning a master’s degree in journalism. He most recently covered small business, the job market and labor issues for the business section.

He has won numerous awards, including “Best in Business” for enterprise and project reporting from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

Previously, he worked for the Denver Business Journal, the Littleton Independent and the City News Bureau of Chicago. He graduated with a B.A. in history from Colorado College in 1988.

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.