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New editor at Orange County Business Journal

Jerry Sullivan has been named the editor of the Orange County Business Journal in California, replacing Michael Lyster.

Chris Casacchia writes, “Sullivan, the Business Journal’s managing editor since October, will oversee production of the weekly newspaper and its daily news website.

“Sullivan served as a reporter, marketing and media columnist and managing editor of the Business Journal in the 1990s.

“He also served as editor of World Trade magazine in Irvine, California Apparel News in Los Angeles, and started and ran the Los Angeles Garment & Citizen, a community newspaper that covered the Downtown Los Angeles area for 10 years before ceasing publication last year.

“‘Jerry continues our strong tradition of extraordinary editors at the Business Journal, following the tenures of Rick Reiff and Mike Lyster,’ said Business Journal Publisher Richard Reisman.

“Lyster is leaving the paper to become vice president of corporate communications at Irvine Company.

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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