Memphis Biz Journal ME Cashiola departs for another publication

Mary Cashiola

Mary Cashiola, the managing editor of the Memphis Business Journal, has left the paper for another publication in the city.

She became managing editor in September 2015.

A graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, Cashiola is an award-winning journalist and copywriter.

Cashiola served as senior editor of the Memphis Flyer and contributing editor with Memphis magazine.

She was also a senior copywriter at Sullivan Branding, and, prior to that, Cashiola worked as the communications manager for the City of Memphis in Mayor A C Wharton’s administration.

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.