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Pacific Business News celebrates 50th anniversary

The Pacific Business News, the weekly business newspaper in Honolulu owned by American City Business Journals, celebrated its 50th anniversary this past week.

Attendees included newspaper founder George Mason’s widow, Dot Mason, and son, George Mason, along with two former Honolulu mayors and former Hawaii Gov. George Ariyoshi.

Whit Shaw, president and CEO of American City Business Journals, traveled from the company’s headquarters in Charlotte, N.C., with members of his family to attend the event.

Watch the slideshow here.

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.