Knoxville biz editor leaves paper

Bill Brewer, the business editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel in Tennessee, left his job on Friday.

Jack McElroy, editor of the paper, writes on the paper’s website, “Looking for more regular hours now that he and his wife are empty-nesters, he has taken the job of information director for Knoxville’s Catholic diocese.

“Bill, an excellent journalist and a tremendously nice guy, has been part of the newsroom since 1990 and has filled the important role of business editor for the past several years. We will miss him.”

Brewer became the paper’s business editor in June 2007. Since joining the News Sentinel in 1990, he was also a business writer and copy editor/page designer.

He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee.

Read more here. The job ad looking for his replacement can be found here.

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.