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New biz editor named at Sun-Sentinel

Anne Vasquez has been named business editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, replacing Gail DeGeorge, the current president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

DeGeorge became the Sunday editor a month ago.

Vasquez has served as deputy business editor since she joined the Sun-Sentinel in January 2006. She recently completed a fellowship through the Newspaper Association of America’s Breakthrough: James K. Batten Leadership Program.

Before joining the Sun-Sentinel, Vasquez was an editor and reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, a reporter at the Miami Herald, a reporter in an exchange program in Brazil, and a reporting intern at the Boston Globe.

She’s served as secretary and at-large representative for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

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.