Idaho Business Review editor returning to Vermont

Anne Wallace Allen

Anne Wallace Allen, the editor of the Idaho Business Review, is leaving the publication after eight years and moving back to Vermont.

Allen’s last day is Sept. 5. She is joining VTDigger, a nonprofit news organization in Montpelier, Vermont. She has been hired as a business reporter.

Allen spent a decade at the AP bureau in Montpelier before moving to Idaho in 2005. She also worked for two years for the Idaho Statesman.

“We’ve had full editorial independence in the newsroom, and I have enjoyed my eight years here,” said Allen about the Business Review.

Allen has a BA in literature from Bard College in New York and an MA in public policy from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She was born in Australia and raised in the Boston area.

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.