Idaho Statesman moves business coverage

The Idaho Statesman has moved its business news coverage and dropped its stock market report from the daily paper.

Editor Vicki Gowler writes, “Business news moved into the main news section. We will still try to have a similar number of business stories, briefs and headlines. Look for the red label of Business to find them. The business columns were shifted to either Depth (Ed Lotterman‘s economics) or Explore (Ask Dave Ramsey personal finance, Robb Hicken‘s BBB consumer/scam alerts, Marie McIntyre‘s workplace coach). We’re still figuring out the best days for those columns to run.

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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.