Categories: OLD Media Moves

Gibson named editor of Prairie Business magazine

A Forum Communications Company editor with a wide range of experience has been hired as the next editor of Prairie Business magazine.

A story on its website states, “Lisa Gibson will assume the role in the coming weeks, according to Korrie Wenzel, publisher of Prairie Business, Agweek and the Grand Forks Herald. Gibson takes over a position that has been vacant since former Editor Kris Bevill resigned in August.

“‘Lisa has been a key editor within the Grand Forks Herald group for some time now,’ Wenzel said Friday. ‘To see her move into yet another influential role within the company is quite exciting. She’s well-suited for this job, thanks to her background, her skills as an editor and her enthusiasm.’

“Prairie Business is a monthly magazine dedicated to reporting on the business people and trends of the Dakotas and western Minnesota. Its circulation is approximately 19,000.”

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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.