Houston Business Journal hires new publisher

Bob Charlet, publisher of the Pacific Business News, has been named publisher of the Houston Business Journal.

Giselle Greenwood of the Houston Business Journal writes, “Charlet joined the Pacific Business News, a sister publication, in 2009 as advertising director and was promoted to publisher three years later. Prior to PBN, he was North American group sales manager at Canon Communications, overseeing sales and marketing for a group of B2B media properties. He is a graduate of Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana.

“‘I’m excited to join an extremely successful organization in one of our largest markets and to return to the Gulf South Region where I am from,’ Charlet said.

“‘Bob joins a veteran team of professionals who have distinguished the HBJ as one of the leading business journals in the country,’ said Mike Olivieri, executive vice president of North Carolina-based American City Business Journals, HBJ’s parent company.”

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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.