Indianapolis Biz Journal publisher is retiring

Greg Morris

Greg Morris, publisher of Indianapolis Business Journal and The Indiana Lawyer, announced Friday he will retire at the end of the month from IBJ Media Corp. after nearly 30 years with the company.

Lesley Weidenbener of the Business Journal writes, “IBJ Media CEO Nate Feltman, one of the company’s three owners, will add the publisher roles to his responsibilities.

“The change comes as IBJ has experienced a surge in readership—despite challenges in the newspaper industry overall—breaking a record this month for subscriptions that had been set in 2001. The number of people subscribing to IBJ has increased 39% in just the past two years.

“Morris, 64, came to IBJ from what was then WKLR-FM in the spring of 1991, starting as sales director for the weekly business newspaper. For several years, he held the same title at the former MyStar Communications, a company IBJ co-owner Mickey Maurer sold in 2004.”

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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.