Categories: OLD Media Moves

Prosser named Kansas City Business Journal publisher

Stacie Prosser has been named publisher of the Kansas City Business Journal, reports editor Brian Kaberline.

Kaberline writes, “Whitney Shaw, CEO of American City Business Journals Inc., announced the appointment Thursday. The move, effective Jan. 12, brings an experienced, familiar name to the top of the news-gathering operation’s masthead.

“Prosser joined the Business Journal in 1996 as an account executive and became director of advertising in 2012. She succeeds Joyce Hayhow, who is retiring after 23 years as publisher.

“‘The Kansas City Business Journal has been an incredible place to spend the past 18 years, and I’m very excited about the future of our company and the KC business community,'” Prosser said. ‘I’m extremely honored to have been asked to fill this role and look forward to continuing to deliver the quality products and information we’ve become known for over the last 33 years.'”

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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.

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