Parkhurst promoted to editor of Seattle biz weekly

Emily Parkhurst has been promoted to editor of the Puget Sound Business Journal, an American City Business Journals newspaper.

A story on its website states, “Parkhurst has been with the PSBJ for more than four years, first as a technology reporter, then digital managing editor then managing editor. Before that, she was an education and government reporter in her home state of Maine.

“‘I am tremendously pleased to name a journalist of Emily’s talent as editor in chief of the Business Journal,’ Emory Thomas Jr., president and publisher of PSBJ, said. ‘Emily has done a terrific job as managing editor, and the Puget Sound business community will benefit greatly from her leadership of this important and influential newsroom.’

“Parkhurst is a national award-winning journalist. Her series of stories on restraint of school children in Maine won the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for investigative reporting. She has a master’s degree in creative writing and an undergraduate degree in classical music performance.”

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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.