Categories: OLD Media Moves

Memphis daily names Evanoff new biz editor

Ted Evanoff, a longtime reporter at The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, has been named its business editor.

A story on its website states, “Evanoff, 60, has been a reporter and editor specializing in economic development and business since he graduated in 1977 from the University of Michigan, where his focus was history and economics. He served for several months as the newspaper’s interim Business Editor.

“‘While Ted has a strong background in business and economics, he also has a deep understanding of Memphis and its institutions,’’ said editor Louis Graham, announcing the decision to the staff this morning. ‘He’s bringing that knowledge to bear in the daily decisions of what topics we cover and how we cover them.’

“Evanoff worked as a business writer for The CA from 1989 to 1994. He moved on to cover the auto industry for the Detroit Free Press, then the economy for the Indianapolis Star before returning to Memphis in 2011.

“He is co-author of At the Crossroads: Middle America and the Battle to Save the Car Industry, an examination of the Detroit bailout published in 2009.”

Read more 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.

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