Memphis Business Journal editor resigns

Terry Hollahan, the editor of the Memphis Business Journal, has resigned.

He had been editor of the American City Business Journals newspaper for less than a year.

A University of Memphis graduate, Hollahan joined the Business Journal as a reporter in 1999. He was promoted to sections editor in 2000, and was named managing editor in 2003.

Since he moved into that position, the Business Journal has won two awards from the Tennessee Press Association for General Excellence, an honor the paper had achieved only once in the previous 28 years. He has worked in the newspaper business for more than 25 years.

A story on the paper’s website said a search has begun for a replacement.

The story stated, “‘As the head of the newsroom, the editor in chief is responsible for driving product strategy, quality and engagement across all platforms. We are looking for a personable leader who has an insatiable desire and proven ability for building an audience and driving loyalty and growth while maintaining our core focus on information impacting business in and around Memphis and the Mid-South,’ said Joanna Crangle, publisher of Memphis Business Journal.”

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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.