Kupper moves to news side at Star Tribune

Thom Kupper

Thom Kupper, the assistant managing editor of business at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, has moved over to become the AME of news.

Kupper has been AME of business since 2015.

He joined the Star Tribune as senior business editor in 2010 and played a pivotal role in the coordination and execution of a major redesign of the Sunday business section.

Before coming to the Star Tribune, Kupper spent 13 years as a business reporter and editor at the San Diego Union-Tribune. As a reporter, he was a finalist for the Livingston Award, which honors the best work in the country by journalists under 35.

As deputy business editor, he oversaw a real estate section that was named the best in the country by the National Association of Real Estate Editors.

He started his career as a reporter in metro and later business at the Allentown Morning Call in Pennsylvania.

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.