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New York state papers name new business editor

Doug Fenton has joined the editorial staff of Community Newspapers of Western New York as business editor.

A story on the Hamburg Sun website states, “Doug served as case manager and marketing director for Fredonia Place, an assisted living and memory care community, for the past seven years.

“He formerly served as community relations director at Lake Shore Health Care Center, Brooks Memorial Hospital and Absolut Care of Dunkirk. He also formerly served as business editor for the Dunkirk Observer.

“A graduate of the State University of New York at Fredonia and Niagara County Community College, Doug served as managing editor for the former Buffalo Business Journal and as president of the Empire Healthcare Communicators Association and former North County Counseling Service. Active in the community, he currently serves as a Eucharistic minister and lay reader at the Episcopal Church of the Advent in Kenmore.”

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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.

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