Las Vegas biz editor Behringer is retiring

Dan Behringer

Dan Behringer, whose journalism career spanned nearly four decades, retired Friday, April 6, from his position as business news editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

He retires exactly 25 years from his original employment date of April 6, 1993, where he began work at the Review-Journal as a copy editor.

In nearly 40 years in the journalism profession, he wrote for or edited newspapers in Michigan, Texas, Utah and Nevada. He won countless awards for team coverage, newspaper design, headline writing and editorial writing. His consistent awards on editorial writing on education issues while in Texas earned him the unofficial title of “winningest journalist in Texas.”

He is also a recipient of the journalist of the year award from Suburban Newspapers of America.

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.