Categories: OLD Media Moves

LA Biz Journal editor Diamond to head magazine effort

Los Angeles Business Journal editor Jonathan Diamond had been tapped to oversee the publication’s new magazine and its conferences.

A story on its website states, “In his new position, created to leverage the editorial and commercial success of standalone magazines LA500: The Most Influential People in Los Angeles, The Money Book, and Wealthiest Angelenos created by the Business Journal over the last year, Diamond will oversee the next generation of publications as well as a portfolio of other editorial initiatives.

“Editor of the Los Angeles Business Journal since March 2016, Diamond will be replaced in that position by Jerry Sullivan, who had edited the Orange County Business Journal for five years.

“Both publications are owned by CBJ Associates.”

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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.