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Plain Dealer names new business editor

Mary Lou Brink, former interactive media and niche publications director for the Fort Wayne Newspapers in Fort Wayne, Ind., has been named the business editor of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland.

Janet Cho of the Plain Dealer writes, “Brink, an Ohio University graduate who grew up in Columbus, will oversee seven full-time business journalists who write for Ohio’s largest newspaper in print and online at cleveland.com.

“‘I am thrilled to join the high-quality editing ranks at The Plain Dealer, and I look forward to working with such a talented and multidimensional staff,’ Brink said via email. ‘This team of journalists is hands down one of the best, if not THE best, in the country, and I am honored to be among them.

“‘I’m excited to hit the ground running at such a legendary news organization. My traditional print background coupled with my recent experience directing news websites in Indiana, I hope, will serve the readers and users of The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com, respectively, well.”

Read more here.

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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