Categories: OLD Media Moves

Oregon Business publisher resigns

Gillian Floren, the publisher of Oregon Business magazine, has resigned, according to a short story on the Portland Business Journal web site.

The short story stated, “Floren, who has been at the magazine for 10 years, first as editor, then publisher, gave no reason for her resignation.

“She said she will announce in a couple of weeks her plans for the future. No successor has been announced.

“Oregon Business, founded in 1981, is a statewide business news monthly magazine owned by Portland-based Mediamerica Inc.”

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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.