Categories: OLD Media Moves

Longtime OC Register small biz columnist retires

Jan Norman, who worked at the Orange County Register for more than 30 years covering small business and entrepreneurship, has retired and moved to Texas.

Norman joined the Register in 1981. Before that, she worked at a couple of other daily newspapers.

In describing her column, Norman had written, “I don’t own a small business because I never wanted my small-business coverage to be about me. It’s about you. And the experiences of thousands of entrepreneurs and small-business owners are better than one.”

“She worked here for more than 30 years and was one of the country’s top writers about small businesses and entrepreneurs,” said Register business editor Donna Wares in an email to Talking Biz News. “Because both are so important to our community and coverage, we are searching for a great replacement.”

The job description for Norman’s replacement can be found 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.