Inside Business gets new editor, integrating with Virginian-Pilot biz section

Tom White

Tom White is becoming business editor for Virginia Media, a new holding company for Tronc’s Southeastern Virginia media properties.

A story on its website states, “In that capacity, White, currently The Pilot’s sports editor, will oversee Inside Business, which is integrating its operations with The Pilot. White also will lead the team that produces Daily Press business news and TidewaterBiz.com.

“His role is to expand IB’s focus, digital audience and regional business news coverage.

“‘Under Landmark ownership, Inside Business developed into a critically important piece of the company,’ White said. ‘Clearly, it will remain an important component under our new owners. My hope is to build on the strong brand and expand the content — both online and in print — to include news from around the region.’

“‘Let’s make it even more critical for business leaders to read each week,’ White continued.”

Read more here. Inside Business publisher Mike Herron is retiring.

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.