Huffman hired as ME for Triangle Biz Journal

Dane Huffman

Dane Huffman, who has been managing WNCN.com for the CBS affiliate in Raleigh, has been hired as the new managing editor of the Triangle Business Journal.

He replaces Rebecca Troyer, who left the American City Business Journals paper earlier this year when she moved to Greensboro.

Huffman worked at The (Raleigh) News & Observer for 24 years, at WRAL-TV for nearly four before joining WNCN in April 2011.

In November 2014, WNCN.com was named the top television website in the Carolinas by the news directors association. It has tripled its page views in a year, grown advertising and put a heavy focus on mobile media.

He was an assistant sports editor and reporter at the News & Observer. At WRAL, he was the sports editor. Huffman is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate.

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.