Categories: OLD Media Moves

New ME named for biz magazine

Lesley Ann Beck has been named managing editor of BBQ: Berkshire Business Quarterly, a new magazine published by Berkshire Living, according to a short article in the Berkshire Eagle.

The article stated, “Beck was editor of the Berkshires Week supplement to The Berkshire Eagle for nine years.

“She also worked as graphics editor at the Daily Record in Parsippany, N.J., and began her career at New Orleans CityBusiness, in New Orleans.

“‘With cultural tourism and the creative economy such an important component of doing business in the Berkshires, I am thrilled to be a part of the new Berkshire Business Quarterly,’ said Beck.”

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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.