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Longtime biz journalist Harbrecht retires from Kiplinger

Doug Harbrecht

Director of new media Doug Harbrecht is retiring from Kiplinger on Tuesday.

Harbrecht has led Kiplinger’s rapid growth online and in social media. Kiplinger.com is an award-winning site providing trusted, independent financial advice and business forecasts.

“For more than a decade, Doug has vigorously expanded Kiplinger.com into what it is today,” said Knight Kiplinger, editor in chief and president or Kiplinger, in a statement. “He has been instrumental in the significant growth in page views, unique visitors and revenue which, in 2016, made Kiplinger.com the most profitable division of our company.”

Harbrecht joined the Kiplinger team in 2006 from BusinessWeek.com, which he helped to launch. That site won the 2000 National Magazine Award for Editorial Excellence in New Media.

Before pioneering digital media strategy, Harbrecht enjoyed a distinguished print career as a Washington correspondent covering the White House, Congress, international economics and trade for BusinessWeek magazine.

He is a former president and treasurer of the National Press Club and former chairman of the Periodical Gallery of Congressional Correspondents on Capitol Hill. Harbrecht is a frequent speaker and commentator on television, radio and at conferences.

In retirement, Harbrecht plans to travel in the U.S. and internationally and continue his work educating journalists around the world.

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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