Pacific Business News senior editor Meierdiercks departs

Janis Magin Meierdiercks

Janis Magin Meierdiercks, a senior editor at the Pacific Business News in Honolulu, has left the publication to become director of communications at the University of Hawaii Foundation.

She had also been real estate editor, managing editor, managing editor of digital content, and a reporter covering real estate and banking for the American City Business Journals publication.

Meierdiercks had been with Pacific Business News since 2006. She was previously a stringer for The New York Times. And she spent 13 years at the Associated Press.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Penn State University and a master’s degree from Boston University.

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.