McLaughlin named biz editor at Oregon paper

Kathleen McLaughlin

Kathleen McLaughlin has been named the business editor of The Bend Bulletin in Oregon.

She replaces Joe Ditzler, who went to the Santa Fe New Mexican.

She has been at the paper since June 2015, most recently covering the technology industry. Previously at The Bulletin, she covered health and medicine, writing articles for the daily edition, weekly feature section and quarterly glossy magazine.

As the business editor, she will also cover real estate and write several stories a week.

Before moving to Oregon, McLaughlin worked at the Indianapolis Business Journal for six years and received the First Amendment Award from the Society of Professional Journalists Indiana chapter.

She also worked at the Riverfront Times in St. Louis as a staff writer and at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune as a business reporter.

McLaughlin is a University of Missouri graduate.

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.