New editor named at Missouri business paper

There is a changing of the guard at the Columbia Business Times in Missouri.

Current editor David Reed writes, “After this issue, new editor Brian McNeill will take over the day-to-day editorial operations of the Business Times, and I will move into the role of executive editor. I’ll still run our community issue forums and contribute articles and columns while working about half time, and even less as Brian becomes reacclimated to the area.

“I’m taking over the management of Columbia Tech Network from Sean Spence and hope to build it into a leading force in the development of the area’s tech entrepreneur culture. After helping to plan the next few CBT issues, I’m taking some time off to get to work on the network and start a communications consulting company.

“The city’s most trusted and oldest business paper will have a new but experienced and capable manager.”

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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.