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New editor named at Pittsburgh Business Times

Howard Burns, 52, has been named editor of the Pittsburgh Business Times, an American City Business Journals newspaper, and will begin April 16.

He replaces Lauren Lawley, who became the editor of the Dallas Business Journal late last year.

Managing editor Jennifer Curry writes, “A veteran journalist, he has been a reporter and editor for more than 30 years, and spent 18 years working for the Hollywood Reporter, where he was editor for four years and editorial director for one. Most recently, he served as editor of the film magazine Moving Pictures.

“A graduate of the University of Miami with a B.A. in communications, Burns began his career as a reporter on the city desk at The Miami News. He moved to Los Angeles in 1987 to become a reporter for Multichannel News, a weekly trade paper covering the cable TV industry.

”It is a distinct honor to join the ACBJ family and become the editor of the Pittsburgh Business Times,’ Burns said. ‘I look forward to bringing my passion for innovation and enterprise journalism to the pages of PBT and continue the paper’s long tradition of offering in-depth reporting and actionable information to the business professionals of western Pennsylvania.'”

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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