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Donnelly resigns as Boston Business Journal executive editor

George Donnelly is stepping down, effective Nov. 1, as executive editor of the Boston Business Journal after 14 years in the role.

A story on its website states, “In 2013, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers recognized Boston Business Journal for General Excellence as one of the nation’s top three weekly publications.

“BBJ publisher Gale Murray has started a search for a new Executive Editor.

“The BBJ is part of American City Business Journals, the country’s largest publisher of local business news and information.”

Read more here. He joined the Boston Business Journal as editor in November 2000 after working for two years as a senior editor at CFO magazine, where he covered a range of corporate finance topics.

He was editor-in-chief of the Tab newspaper group, which included 15 weekly newspapers in the Greater Boston area, from 1995 to 1998. He began his journalism career as a reporter for the Somerville Journal in 1985, and he was editor of the Somerville Journal from 1987 to 1991.

A native of Peekskill, N.Y., Donnelly came to Boston in 1981 after receiving a degree in English Literature at Binghamton University.

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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