Meier promoted to ME at LA Business Journal

Henry Meier

Reporter Henry Meier has been promoted to managing editor at the Los Angeles Business Journal.

He replaces Omar Shamout, who left for an editing job at University of California-Riverside.

Meier will serve alongside managing editor Paul Eakins. Both report to editor Jerry Sullivan.

Meier is a veteran reporter — he’ll retain his Deal & Dealmakers column for the foreseeable future — at the Business Journal.

He’s also been a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily Journal, and his work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

Meier is a native of Sacramento and graduate of Occidental College in the Eagle Rock district of Los Angeles, where he earned B.A. in philosophy.

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.