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Loeb finalist named Philly Inquirer deputy editorial page editor

Paul Davies

Paul D. Davies, a longtime business journalist, has been named deputy editorial page editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

He begins Aug. 29.

Harold Jackson of the Inquirer writes, “Born in Philadelphia, Davies served as the Inquirer’s deputy editorial page editor from 2007 to 2011, and was instrumental in improving the department’s online presence. For the past two years, Davies has been a journalism professor at the University of Delaware. Prior to that, he was a senior fellow for the Institute for American Values in New York.

“From 1997 to 2004, Davies was a reporter at the Philadelphia Daily News, where his stories on predatory lending led to the convictions of two people and made him a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for business reporting. He has also been a reporter for the Wall Street Journal; Worth magazine; the New Haven, Conn., Register; the Lakeland, Fla., Ledger; and the Salisbury, Md., Times. He began his career as an Inquirer suburban correspondent.

“With degrees from the University of Delaware and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Davies was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia. He also won first-place citations for editorial writing in 2009 from the Keystone Press Association and the Philadelphia Society of Professional Journalists.”

Read more here.

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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