Houston Biz Journal hires Adams as associate editor

Jonathan Adams

The Houston Business Journal has hired Jonathan Adams to be its associate editor.

Editor Giselle Greenwood writes, “Adams will oversee HBJ’s Special Reports, which focus on a different industry each week. He will also be responsible for collecting guest-contributed articles, calendar items, op-eds and writing for the paper’s Back Page feature.

“Before joining the HBJ, Adams edited and designed the front, sports and business pages for Lee Enterprises, a media company that publishes 46 daily newspapers across the states. He also worked as a sports editor, reporter and photographer for the Williamson County Sun in Georgetown, Texas.”

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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.