Ex-Baltimore Sun biz editor named its editor

Trif Alatzas, who was the Baltimore Sun’s business editor, has been named the paper’s top editor.

Matthew Hay Brown of the Sun writes, “Alatzas joined The Sun as an assistant business editor in 2002, taking responsibility initially for the real estate section.

“He was promoted to business editor in 2008, and led coverage of the financial crisis, housing bust and recession. The Sun was recognized by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for work during that time.

“Sandy Banisky, a former deputy managing editor at The Sun, helped to choose stories for the front page each day.

“‘We would read a story and say this might not be going in the right direction, or there are some questions that need answering,’ said Banisky, now a journalism professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. ‘By the time I made my way over to the business desk, Trif was already standing with the reporter, working on changes.'”

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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.