Categories: OLD Media Moves

Former ME of biz paper now heads Idaho's Democrats

John Foster, who until recently was the managing editor of the Idaho Business Review, has been named the executive director of the Idaho Democratic Party, according to an AP story.

The AP story stated, “John Foster, 33, succeeds Maria Weeg, who took over as party director in Arizona earlier this month.

“Foster, who took a leave of absence from the Idaho Business Review while interviewing for the political job, was news editor for the Rio Grande Sun newspaper in New Mexico before returning to his native Idaho last year to take the business newspaper post.

“The former professional bicycle racer faces a daunting task of rebuilding the minority party.

“All seven statewide elected offices – from Gov. C.L. ‘Butch’ Otter to state Controller Donna Jones – are held by members of the GOP. All four members of Idaho’s congressional delegation also are Republican, and Democrats are outnumbered 51-19 in the state House and 28-7 in the Senate.”

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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.