Indianapolis Biz Journal hires Weaver as ME

Greg Weaver

Veteran business and political journalist Greg Weaver has been hired as managing editor of the Indianapolis Business Journal.

A story on its website states, “Weaver’s responsibilities in the IBJ newsroom’s No. 2 leadership position will include coordinating its daily news coverage and e-newsletters, handling social media accounts, editing stories for the weekly print edition, and working with reporters on investigative stories and enterprise packages.

“Weaver, 59, takes the position vacated by Lesley Weidenbener, who was promoted to IBJ’s top editor in January.

“‘Greg Weaver is a top-notch journalist and editor whom I have admired for a long time,’ Weidenbener said Thursday. ‘His interest and focus on the interplay between business and politics is especially appropriate for IBJ, and his experience with big breaking stories as well as investigative work will help make IBJ an even stronger news organization.”

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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.