Categories: OLD Media Moves

Pacific Coast Business Times adds, promotes staffers

The Pacific Coast Business Times has added some staffers and promoted others to new positions, writes editor and founder Henry Dubroff.

Elijah Brumback, who took over the commercial real estate beat this summer, has expanded his beat to include banking, financial services, courts, white collar crime and the overall economy.

Erika Martin, who joined the paper a year ago has special reports editor, has been promoted to technology editor, leaving its coverage of technology, biotech and biomedicine, and venture capital.

Chris Officer was named special reports editor, producing the newspaper’s 23 special reports plus its Top 25 lists and annual report on the region’s richest people.

Marissa Wenzke was hired to cover agribusiness, small business and nonprofits, and she shares the health care beat with Martin.

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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.