Florida biz journal hires managing editor

Timothy Gibbons, business editor at the Times-Union, is leaving to become managing editor at the Jacksonville Business Journal.

Kate Howard Perry of the Times-Union writes, “Gibbons has been with the Times-Union for 11 years. He will start at the business publication in mid-July.

“‘I look forward to using the skills and experience I’ve developed over more than a decade at the Times-Union at the Business Journal,’ Gibbons said. ‘The Business Journal has ambitious plans, and it will be exciting to be a part of that future.’

“The Jacksonville Business Journal is a weekly print newspaper and daily website, one of 40 owned by American City Business Journals.

“Frank Denton, editor of the Times-Union, said Gibbons is a ‘talented and principled’ journalist who will be missed by the news organization.

“‘We wish him well,’ Denton said.”

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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.