Parkhurst named VP of content for 6AM City

Emily Parkhurst

Emily Parkhurst, the former publisher and editor in chief of the Puget Sound Business Journal, has been hired as vice president of content for 6AM City, a fast-growing media company.

Parkhurst oversees editorial and branded content. 6AM City provides hyper-local stories and content to hundreds of thousands of readers every day in cities across the country and is expanding into new markets.

She was publisher of the Business Journal, an American City Business Journals publication, since October 2018. She previously was its editor in chief from May 2016 to October 2018.

Parkhurst was also the paper’s managing editor, digital managing editor and a technology reporter.

6AM City, which is based in Greenville, South Carolina, has 425,000 subscribers and a total audience of 1.3 million.

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.