Former InsideBiz editor joins Hampton faculty

Butch Maier

Butch Maier, who was editor of business publication Inside Business for the past two years, has joined the Hampton University faculty as an assistant professor and will teach a business journalism course.

The course will teach students how to cover a business beat, how to use the Bloomberg terminal, and how to follow the money.

At Inside Business, based in Norfolk, Virginia, Maier was writer, associate editor and editor-in-chief and set several records for page views and unique users on InsideBiz.com. He left the publication in April.

Maier also worked as a copy editor at the Virginian-Pilot, a page designer and copy editor at the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, and a sports page designer and copy editor at the St. Petersburg Times and Boston Globe.

He also worked at the Akron Beacon-Journal and Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Maier is a graduate of Guilford College.

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.