Hammerand named ME of Puget Sound Biz Journal

Jim Hammerand

Jim Hammerand has been named the managing editor of the Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle.

He’s currently the digital editor of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal, which is also an American City Business Journal newspaper. In that job, he manages its daily email newsletters and breaking news alerts, online features, digital multimedia, the MSPBJ.com homepage and section pages.

Hammerand was previously the law and finance reporter at the paper, which he joined in February 2010.

Before joining the business journal he produced content for several Minnesota newspapers and ABC News. The Associated Press recognized him as New Journalist of the Year for Minnesota daily newspapers in 2008.

He’s a graduate of the University of Minnesota.

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.