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Design director leaving Fortune

Tim Leong, the design director at Fortune magazine for the past eight months, is leaving the business magazine to run the design department at Entertainment Weekly.

Leong came to Fortune last August from Wired. Both Fortune and Entertainment Weekly are Time Inc. publications.

In an email to Talking Biz news, Leong writes, “I’m incredibly excited about this new opportunity, but sad to leave my amazing colleagues at Fortune.”

He previously the director of digital design at Wired, where he designed features and oversaw the design and interactives of the digital editions. He was the design director at Complex Magazine.

Before that he spent three years at Men’s Health. In 2005 he founded the Eisner-award losing Comic Foundry Magazine, which folded a few years later. Leong is currently on the board of the Society of Publication Designers. His first book, “Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe” was published in 2013 from Chronicle Books.

Leong is a University of Missouri graduate.

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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