Florida Today biz editor Price leaves for foundation job

Wayne T. Price

Wayne T. Price, formerly the business editor at Florida Today, based in Brevard County on Florida’s Space Coast, recently left that position.

He had been at the paper for 20 years.

Price is now director of communications at the Space Coast Health Foundation in Rockledge, Florida.

The Space Coast Health Foundation is a non-profit, founded in 2011, which each year gives out millions of dollars in grants to different organizations in Brevard that work to be better the area.

Florida Today, owned by the Gannett Co. and started by USA Today founder Al Neuharth, is actively seeking a replacement for Price to cover the Space Coast and Central Florida economy, including the burgeoning aerospace industry which takes in NASA, Space X, Blue Origin, Embraer Executive Jets, Harris Corp. and Northrop Grumman among others.

Price is a Kansas State University 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.