Fresno paper folds business desk into metro as biz editor departs

The Fresno Bee has folded its business news desk into its metro operations with the departure last month of business editor Mike Nemeth.

Jeff Rich, assistant managing editor of news at the paper, says that the paper has assigned an assistant city editor, Jeff Bils, as the line editor for the four reporters formerly on the business desk.

“Jeff and I share oversight of The Bee’s business coverage, which has been moved inside the Local & State section daily and Sunday,” says Rich.

Nemeth had been business editor since October 2005. Before that, he was assistant city editor at the Tri-City Herald for nearly seven years. He also worked at the Skagit Valley Herald and the Anchorage Times.

He was known in the Bee newsroom for his sense of humor and for making the business desk a fun place to work.