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Huffington Post names new business editor

Alexander Kaufman, who had been associate business editor at The Huffington Post, has been promoted to business editor.

Kaufman, who has been with Huffington Post since March 2014, founded, wrote and compiled its Saturday morning newsletter, Weekend Pause. He has also written posts for the HuffPost business Twitter and Facebook pages and managed the HuffPost business homepage.

Before joining Huffington Post, Kaufman worked for MediaBistro’s FishbowlNY site, and he was an economics reporter for the International Business Times and a media reporter for TheWrap.com. He also worked for the Boston Globe.

Kaufman is a graduate of Emerson College.

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.