Powell, editor of Virginia Business, is retiring

Robert C. Powell

Robert Powell, the editor of Virginia Business magazine, is retiring once a replacement is found.

Powell has been editor of the Richmond-based magazine for nearly 15 years.

“I’ll step down as editor when my successor is hired,” said Powell. “The plan for me to stay on part-time as an adviser during a transition period.”

Before joining the magazine, Powell was with The Richmond News Leader and Richmond Times-Dispatch for 20 years as a business writer and associate business editor.

His first journalism job, in 1976, was with The Blackshear Times, a Georgia weekly whose motto is: “Like by many, cussed by some, read by them all.”

He holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Richmond and a bachelor’s degree in English from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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.