Categories: OLD Media Moves

Honolulu biz paper editor to run Baptist newspaper

Kevin Bumgarner, editor-in-chief of the Pacific Business News in Honolulu, Hawaii, since 2010, has been named executive editor of the Florida Baptist Witness, news journal of the Florida Baptist Convention.

Bob Allen of Associated Baptist Press writes, “Bumgarner, 47, elected unanimously by the Jacksonville-based newspaper’s board of directors Jan. 9, begins work Feb. 1. He succeeds Jim Smith, who resigned in July after 12 years to become executive editor and chief spokesman at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.

“Bumgarner, a layman who attends Mililani Baptist Church in Hawaii, worked previously for other American City Business Journals-owned newspapers in Dallas and in Greensboro, N.C. He was business editor of the Huntsville Times in Alabama in 1997-1998 and prior to that at the Wichita Business Journal 1990-1997.

“Bumgarner and his wife of 25 years, Melanie, have three sons. His brother, Bob Bumgarner, works for Florida Baptists as lead strategist for the Florida Baptist Convention’s church health group.”

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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.