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Minneapolis-St. Paul biz journal names new publisher

Tammy Mencel has been named the new publisher of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal, according to a story in the paper by Carissa Wyant.

Wyant wrote, “Mencel, currently the paper’s advertising director, replaces former publisher Lisa Bormaster. Bormaster was recently named the Dallas Business Journal‘s publisher.

“Mencel has been with the Minneapolis paper, owned by Charlotte, N.C.-based American City Business Journals, since April 1999.

“She began as an advertising sales representative, then spent three years as associate advertising director. She assumed the role of director of advertising three years ago.”

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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.