Newsday getting new business editor

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE

Dow Jones Newswires assistant managing editor Bob McGough has been named the business editor at Newsday, according to a memo from Linda Fung, a managing editor at Dow Jones.

Fung writes:

Dow Jones veteran Bob McGough, also known as our black belt sempai, will be departing the company after a long illustrious career to join Newsday, where he will become the business editor.
Bob has been with Dow Jones for nearly two decades, where he started at The Wall Street Journal covering mutual funds and writing the Heard on the Street column. After that, he became deputy editor of health and science at the paper. He joined Newswires in 2006, where he has lead our financial services, personal finance and practice management reporting groups.
We will miss Bob and wish him the best of luck as he takes on his new role in Long Island. His last day will be next week.

McGough, a Rice University graduate, also worked at Forbes magazine from 1981 to 1987 and Financial World from 1989 to 1992.

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.