Categories: OLD Media Moves

New editor named at New Mexico biz weekly

Nancy Salem has been named the new editor of the New Mexico Business Weekly by publisher Sherri Wells, according to a short story on its web site. She will join the weekly business publication owned by Charlotte-based American City Business Journals on July 16.

Salem replaces Dan Shingler, who left the company in May.

The story stated, “Before being promoted to features editor of the E.W. Scripps Co.-owned Albuquerque Tribune last year, Salem served for eight years as the business editor of the afternoon daily. Prior to that, she was the New Mexico business reporter for the Associated Press and also edited general news for the AP. She has served as a science/medical writer and as an assistant news editor of the Albuquerque Tribune, and as a copyeditor at the Omaha World-Herald.”

Read more here. Salem is a long-time art collector. When she became business editor of the Tribune, she replaced Sherry Robinson, who had been editor of the New Mexico Business Weekly.

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.