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Las Vegas biz editor named deputy editor of metro and biz

Jim Wright, who was named the business editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal in April 2011, has been promoted to deputy editor/metro and business.

Wright’s new position means that the business editor role is being eliminated at the paper, according to a story on its website.

Wright, 54, also oversaw the Las Vegas Business Press, a weekly business-to-business magazine produced by the Review-Journal staff. He ran a staff of 14 on the business desk.

Before joining the Review-Journal as an assistant city editor in July 2010, Wright, 54, was editor of the Twin Falls, Idaho, Times-News; an international media management consultant in North Africa; assistant managing editor of the Albany (N.Y.) Times Union; assistant metro editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer; and business editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette.

An Oregon native, Wright received a degree in journalism from the University of Idaho in 1980 and a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Colorado in 1990.

His first job in journalism was as a reporter for the Rocky Mountain News.

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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