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Langford named biz editor of Washington Examiner

James Langford

James Langford has been hired as the business editor of the Washington Examiner.

He started Tuesday. Langford was previously the banking and finance editor at TheStreet.com.

He had been at TheStreet since May 2015. While there, he tripled average page views on banking and finance stories by using state-of-the-art SEO techniques and promoting content through social media and subscription newsletters.

Langford was previously digital media director at LawDragon.com for 22 months and also spent nearly six years at Bloomberg News, where he was an editor on the industry and aerospace team.  He supervised nine reporters covering manufacturing, aerospace and defense companies and airlines.

He also worked at the Wilmington (Del.) News Journal, Florida Today, and the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina-Aiken.

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.

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