KC Biz Journal hires King as a reporter

The Kansas City Business Journal has hired Mary King to oversee special sections and awards, and revive its engineering and architecture beat.

Editor Brian Kaberline reports, “Mary has extensive experience in all aspects of journalism and in business. She was editor of the Jackson County Advocate until the end of last year, when the forces devastating local journalism forced her family to close the newspaper that had served Grandview and the south Kansas City area for 68 years. In that position, she reported, edited and directed the news operation, and she also oversaw the business side of the operation.

“She has been a leader out of the office, too, serving on the boards of the Missouri Press Association and the Grandview Chamber of Commerce. She was president of the Grandview Main Street Association and co-chaired the Grandview Bright Futures program for the school district.”

Read more here. The paper also named Ellen Cagle its digital reporter and Andrew Vaupel its data editor.

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.