Categories: OLD Media Moves

New business editor named at Dallas Biz Journal

Kevin Bumgarner, who had been the editor of the Triad Business Journal in Greensboro, N.C., for the last nine years, is leaving to become the editor of the Dallas Business Journal, another American City Business Journals paper.

Glenn Hunter, the past editor of the Dallas Business Journal, left last month.

AÂ story on the Triad paper’s web site stated, “Under Bumgarner’s leadership, the Triad Business Journal has won more than 40 state and national awards for editorial excellence, including one from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for the series, ‘Health Care: Where the jobs are,’ which published in 2003.

“Paid circulation is also at a record high, and grew 6.2 percent last year alone.

“‘It will be difficult to leave the Triad,’ said Bumgarner, who moved to the area in May 1998. ‘From the rebirth of our downtowns to the transformation of our regional economy, the momentum we’re gaining in the Triad is encouraging. On a more personal note, the Triad has also been a good place for my wife and me to raise a family.’

“Bumgarner’s last day at the Triad paper will be Nov. 2, and a search is already under way for his replacement.”

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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.