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Georgia paper names new business editor

Sheri Kell, a longtime Georgia resident with business news experience, has been named the Marietta Daily Journal’s business editor.

A story on its website states, “Kell began her career 26 years ago at the Northside Neighbor, the flagship weekly newspaper for the Times Journal and Neighbor Newspaper Group, and since has had an impressive career, including editor positions at a regional commercial real estate magazine and with metro Atlanta public relations and marketing firms. Sheri currently works with COMM360, a Marietta-based communications firm.

“‘We certainly look forward to the experience, enthusiasm and knowledge of the Cobb business landscape that Sheri is bringing to our business section,’ said Billy Mitchell, Journal managing editor.

“Kell and her husband, Cobb County Superior Court Judge Tain Kell, have one son and live in east Cobb. She is active in Johnson Ferry Baptist Church and in many civic and community organizations in Cobb County.”

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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.