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Philly Biz Journal hires Potter as managing editor

Michael Potter

The Philadelphia Business Journal has hired Michael Potter as its managing editor.

He started this week.

“I’m incredibly proud to join this talented staff in telling the stories of the people and institutions that make the Philly biz community so diverse and dynamic,” he wrote on Twitter.

For the past year, Potter was manager of the PR Institute, where he led a team of communications professionals in developing a comprehensive publication and marketing plan for nonprofit client as part of a pro bono program sponsored by the Philadelphia Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.

Before that, he was a digital content director and a national desk manager for Advance newspapers.

Potter was also sports editor and deputy sports editor for Philly.com. He also worked at the Virgin Islands Daily News as a sports reporter and photographer.

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.

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