Fredericksburg biz editor leaving paper for PIO position

Amanda Vicinanzo

Amanda Vicinanzo, the business editor at the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star in Virginia, is leaving the paper at the end of the month.

Vicinanzo is becoming the public information officer for the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office. Her last day at the paper is Sept. 29.

Vicinanzo took over as editor of Fredericksburg Business Insider last month. It’s a weekday e-newsletter covering local, state and national business topics.

Vicinanzo previously covered Stafford County for the paper. She is from New Hampshire but moved to Virginia for her undergraduate degree at Christendom College and her master’s degree in statecraft and national security affairs at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C.

Before joining the Free Lance-Star, she was the online managing editor for Homeland Security Today Magazine.

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.