Categories: OLD Media Moves

Deputy editor on LA Times biz desk leaving

Jim Bates, a deputy editor on the entertainment/tech desk at the Los Angeles Times business section, is leaving for a job at Sitrick & Co., a crisis PR firm, according to a memo posted on the LA Observed web site.

Times business editor Davan Maharaj wrote, “There’s no getting around it : This is a huge loss. Jim is a stalwart of the Business Section. His tenure here is second only to NancyRB and he has the most bylines in TOL (2725) of anyone in the section. That makes him the Barry Bonds of Biz (hmm, I’ve always wondered why he kept asking for comp time for his trips to BALCO).

“The good news is that Jim will be here for a few more weeks. We have permission to replace him, even though we can’t really replace him. We’ll miss him, his enormous reservoir of puns and his encyclopedic knowledge of the place.”

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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.