Categories: OLD Media Moves

New business editor at Tennessee paper

Ashley Bergthold has been named the business editor of the Cookeville Herald-Citizen, according to a short story in the paper. She has been a business reporter at the paper.

The story stated, “Bergthold has a degree in Business Management from the University of Missouri-Columbia and has previous publishing experience from working for agriculture-business magazines in her native Missouri.

“Bergthold also gained business experience from working for her family’s farm and at the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association.

“‘I am excited to be given this opportunity,’ said Bergthold. ‘I look forward to providing the Upper Cumberland with extensive business news.

“‘It has been a pleasure meeting people in the region’s business community, everyone has been very welcoming and helpful,’ Bergthold said.

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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