Categories: OLD Media Moves

New publisher named at Silicon Valley Biz Journal

James MacGregor was named Thursday as the new publisher of the Silicon Valley San Jose Business Journal, according to a short story in the weekly business newspaper.

The story stated, “MacGregor is now director of advertising sales at the San Francisco Business Times, an affiliated publication. Both are published by Charlotte, N.C.-based American City Business Journals.

“He succeeds Vintage Foster, who had been the Business Journal’s publisher since 2003. Foster is leaving the paper on Aug. 31 to launch a communications and media services business, Armanino McKenna Foster, with San Ramon-based accounting and consulting firm Armanino McKenna LLP.

“MacGregor will begin as publisher in San Jose on Sept. 1 and will relocate to the San Jose area by the fall. San Francisco Publisher Mary Huss has begun a search for his replacement.

“He joined ACBJ as the Business Times’ advertising director in June 2002, winning the company’s annual internal Eagle Award competition for top performing advertising directors in 2003, 2005 and again in 2006.”

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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.