Categories: OLD Media Moves

Fort Worth business paper hires new president

The Fort Worth Business Press announced Tuesday that Chip Taulbee, associate publisher at Little Rock’s Arkansas Business Publishing Group, will join the company as president.

A story on its website states, “‘We’re so excited to have Chip Taulbee join Fort Worth’s premier niche publishing and events company,’ said Nick Karanges, publisher of the Fort Worth Business Press. ‘His experience in business publishing, editorial, sales, events and digital will be a great addition to our team.’

“Taulbee, who will begin his duties in October, will manage the daily operations of the Fort Worth Business Press and its website, FWBusinessPress.com, as well as several annual and periodic titles, contract publications and events.

“The Fort Worth Business Press, founded in 1987, is owned by DRC Media Corp.

“‘I’m thrilled to join the Fort Worth Business Press and look forward to being part of the thriving Fort Worth business community,’ Taulbee said.

“Taulbee has been associate publisher of the weekly Arkansas Business newspaper since 2006 and has overseen more than a dozen print and digital products in the Arkansas Business Publishing Group’s portfolio.”

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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.