Hammerand joins Puget Sound Biz Journal as ME

Jim Hammerand

Jim Hammerand has joined the Puget Sound Business Journal this week as its managing editor.

A story on its website states, “Hammerand has been with the Business Journal’s sister publication in Minneapolis for six years, most recently as digital editor managing breaking news, social media, multimedia and email newsletters.

“He will oversee the Puget Sound Business Journal’s print and online news operations and work closely with Editor in Chief Emily Parkhurst to retain, develop and recruit the region’s most authoritative business journalists to deliver exclusive and actionable intelligence to subscribers.

“Born and raised near Chicago, Hammerand is the past-president of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication Alumni Society Board and has won reporting awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Associated Press and Minnesota Newspaper Association.”

Read more here.

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.