Categories: OLD Media Moves

Former biz editor leaving industry

McGregor McCance, a former business editor at the Roanoke Times and tech reporter at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, is leaving journalism for a job at the University of Virginia.

McCance had been the managing editor of the Charlottesville Daily Progress for the past seven years.

A story on the Daily Progress web site states that he will be a communication assistant to the associate vice president for public affairs.

The story states, “His time at The Daily Progress has included oversight of all news operations. During McCance’s tenure, the paper launched new digital efforts such as CavalierInsider.com and won national recognition for its ongoing content-sharing partnership with the nonprofit Charlottesville Tomorrow.

“Publisher Lawrence L. McConnell said the newspaper soon will begin a search to fill the editor role.

“McCance’s final day as managing editor is Friday.”

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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.