Montgomery named biz editor of Dubuque paper

Jeff Montgomery

Jeff Montgomery has been named business editor of The Telegraph Herald, the newspaper in Dubuque, Iowa.

A story on its website states, “In addition to those editing duties, Montgomery will continue to be the TH’s lead business reporter and Hinga will remain the primary education reporter. Other TH reporters also will provide some assistance in those areas.

“Montgomery is a native of Hawthorn Woods, Ill., and graduated with a journalism degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008. He formerly worked as a reporter for The Journal-Standard in Freeport, Ill., and The North Scott Press in Eldridge, Iowa.

“Since arriving in Dubuque, Montgomery has won nearly a dozen statewide reporting awards in the Iowa Newspaper Association and Associated Press Media Editors contests. In February, the TH’s business coverage was named the best in the state among Iowa’s largest newspapers.”

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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.