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New Mexico biz editor leaves paper

Business editor Brook Stockberger, who has been with the Las Cruces Sun-News for more than 17 years, has left the newspaper for a position at another newspaper.

A story on the Sun-News website states, “Stockberger came to the Sun-News in October 1996 as a sports reporter and was named sports editor in December 2000. In February 2004, Stockberger became business editor, a position he held until this week, when he accepted a job as managing editor at The Las Cruces Bulletin.

“In addition to business and religion reporting, Stockberger penned a ‘Babbling Brook’ column for the Monday Business section and his lifestyle column appeared on Page 1A of the Sun-News nearly every Monday. He is a five-time winner of the Las Cruces Sun-News Reader’s Choice Columnist of the Year Award. In 2009, Stockberger was named Small Business Journalist of the Year by the New Mexico Small Business Association.”

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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.