Categories: OLD Media Moves

Miami deputy biz editor leaves for AP

Mary Rajkumar, the deputy business editor at The Miami Herald, will join The Associated Press as assistant international editor, working on special projects and series, according to an AP story. Rajkumer will be based in New York.

The story stated, “During two years at The Herald, Rajkumar, 38, led the paper’s housing coverage and edited a prize-winning series exposing secret court dockets withheld from the public.

“Rajkumar earlier spent seven years at the San Jose Mercury News. As assistant business editor from 2001-05, she led a team of award-winning editors and reporters, improving coverage of immigrant communities and international business.

“She spent four years at the Oakland Tribune covering higher education and reported on the end of the affirmative action program at the University of California. During this time she won awards from the national Education Writers’ Assocation for breaking news and feature writing and was nominated as Bay Area Journalist of the Year.”

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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.