Categories: OLD Media Moves

New editor at Massachusetts biz newspaper

Rick Saia, a veteran journalist with experience in the daily newspaper and technology trade media, has been hired as the new editor at the Worcester Business Journal.

A story on its website states, “He will replace Christina H. Davis, who will be taking a leave of absence in September when she is expected to give birth to her first child. Davis will be returning to work in a part-time capacity in 2012, focusing on online efforts for the WBJ’s parent company, New England Business Media.

“Saia has been a Shrewsbury resident since 1999 after living in Grafton for 10 years. His journalism career includes stops in Framingham, where he was an editor at the MetroWest Daily News, and later senior editor at Computerworld, part of International Data Group.

“More recently, he worked as a content writer at PongoResume.com in Northborough, a web-based provider of career management software applications and advice for job seekers. He graduated from Suffolk University with a bachelor’s in journalism and later completed graduate-level courses at Northeastern University in Boston.”

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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.