OLD Media Moves

Idaho Business Review editor Burgess is departing

Kim Burgess

Kim Burgess, the editor of the Idaho Business Review, is leaving the Bridgetower Media publication.

Burgess is leaving on Oct. 14 and joining a company called BeMyApp and doing communications. She will remain based in Boise.

Managing editor Sharon Fisher will serve as interim editor until the paper hires a new editor.

Burgess joined the Idaho Business Review in May 2018 as special sections editor, managing a dozen awards publications and unique magazines. She became editor in September 2018.

A Utah native, Burgess has worked at newspapers around the West.

Previously, Burgess covered K-12 education for the Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico’s largest media company. In that position, she broke the story of a school board member who reportedly embezzled over $700,000 from a charter school for low-income children.

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.

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