Categories: OLD Media Moves

Oregonian names new biz editor

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE

Peter Bhatia, the editor of The Oregonian in Portland, made the following announcement to the staff:

Happy to announce that Scott Nelson is returning to the enterprise team as business editor. His appointment will help us as we work to beef up that coverage and in filling the two business-reporting jobs posted last week. We’re grateful to Scott for his effective efforts in leading the launch of our Portland hyperlocal work.

It wasn’t our intention to move him again so quickly, but the opportunity arose and he was pleased to take it. He has worked successfully in business in the past, for the better part of his eight years at the paper.

Scott’s varied experiences here and elsewhere will serve us well, including being embedded in Iraq while at the Boston Globe, working as personal finance editor of the Tampa Tribune and earning an MBA at the University of Maryland.

As online enterprise editor at The Oregonian, Nelson was responsible for helping develop new revenue streams at the Pacific Northwest’s largest paper. He previously served as deputy business editor and breaking news editor.

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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