Houston Business Journal publisher to retire

John Beddow, publisher of the Houston Business Journal, has announced his retirement.

Giselle Greenwood, the managing editor of the American City Business Journals paper, writes, “Beddow joined American City Business Journals, the parent company of HBJ, in 1983 and has served as publisher of three of the chain’s papers: the Pittsburgh Business Times, the Tampa Bay Business Journal and the Houston Business Journal.

“‘It’s been a high honor to be the publisher of HBJ,’ Beddow said. ‘I’ll miss the action, the pressure and, most of all, the thrill of the success our team has been a part of and helped create.’

“During Beddow’s tenure with the Houston Business Journal, the paper has won several awards, completed a successful redesign and launched Energy Inc., a statewide newsletter. He is also a prominent face in the community as co-host of The BusinessMakers on KNTH 1070 AM.”

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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.