Categories: OLD Media Moves

Pennsylvania paper combines news editor and biz editor positions

The Harrisburg Patriot-News has combined the business editor and news editor positions into one person who will oversee both departments, according to an announcement Sunday.

Ford Turner wrote, “Tom Barstow, formerly business editor, has become news editor. The position replaces city editor and includes new responsibilities. The newspaper has combined its news and business departments into a single local-news operation, which will be headed by Barstow. He is the contact for readers who have suggestions on daily news coverage.

“‘This does not reflect any decrease in our business coverage. We still have the same number of reporters; it is just a question of how we are organizing our newsroom,’ Newhouse said.

“Cate Barron remains managing editor. In the revamped structure, three people, all veterans at The Patriot-News, have been named to assistant managing editor positions.”

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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.