Categories: OLD Media Moves

NY Post biz editor Wilner joins Sitrick

Richard Wilner, the business editor at the New York Post for the past eight years, has left the newspaper for a job at public relations firm Sitrick & Co. in New York.

Sitrick specializes on crisis communication.

Wilner led a team that broke numerous stories in the media, retail, M&A and finance sectors and was recognized by the Associated Press for its business reporting. A series of reports on consolidation in the media world, the mortgage meltdown and the travails of the hedge fund industry drew particular attention.

Wilner has previously been the Sunday business editor at the Post, and he has been at the tabloid since 1996. He also worked as a reporter for Fairchild Publications for seven years.

Wilner is a 1982 graduate of Wagner College. He is also the former treasurer of the New York Financial Writers’ Association.

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.