Pennsylvania biz editor leaving for Vermont job

Michelle Karas, the business editor of the Pottstown Mercury in Pennsylvania, is leaving the paper to become managing editor of a paper in Vermont.

Karas writes, “Next week, I start a new job as managing editor of The Mercury’s sister paper in southern Vermont, the Bennington Banner. I keep telling my friends here it’s a quaint little town to visit, and only five short hours away … close to great skiing and surrounded by breathtakingly beautiful scenery.

“Nonetheless, I’m finding it hard to tear myself away from Pottstown, my home for the past 14 years.

“Pottstown has so many things going for it.”

Read more here. She starts her new job on Jan. 16.

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.