Categories: OLD Media Moves

Indy Star editor overseeing biz takes buyout, joins Indiana Humanities

Greg Weaver

Greg Weaver, who had been involved in overseeing the business news coverage at the Indianapolis Star for the past 19 years, has accepted the paper’s buyout and is joining Indiana Humanities as its director of communications.

Weaver had been editor overseeing government, business and politics coverage since 2012. From 2000 to 2012, he was the assistant business editor and business editor at The Star.

He had joined the Star in 1992 as a religion writer. Before that, he was with the Evansville Courier as a statehouse bureau chief and the Shelbyville News as a general assignment reporter.

He’s a Ball State University graduate.

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.

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