Categories: OLD Media Moves

Editors named for Success magazine relaunch

Deborah Heisz has been named the editor in chief of Success magazine, which plans to relaunch in March as a bi-monthlyÂ and focus on content for entrepreneurs and small businesses.

Heisz joined VideoPlus L.P., the parent company of Success, in August 2004 and has worked on magazines Success from Home, Empowering Women and Your Business at Home.

In addition, Lisa Ocker has been named editor. Ocker previously spent six years as editor of Boca Raton magazine in Florida. She also worked as a reporter for the Palm Beach Post and The Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale.

Also, Sandra Bienkowski has been named managing editor. She previously worked as editor of Home Health Products and managing editor of Mobility Management.

The magazine plans to have an initial circulation of 400,000.

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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.