Indianapolis Biz Journal’s Harton becomes custom content editor

Tom Harton

Tom Harton has been named custom content editor at the Indianapolis Business Journal.

He had been contributing editor.

Harton joined IBJ in 1984, fresh out of Indiana University’s School of Journalism. He covered banking, real estate and the business of sports before becoming associate editor in 1988. He became managing editor the following year and editor in 1990, serving in that position until 2013.

Over the years, Harton’s short stories about Indianapolis real estate have been published in The New York Times, and he has won statewide and national awards for his IBJ editorials and columns.

In that new role, Harton will work with the IBJ sales team on custom content opportunities.

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.