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Publishing editor Jerde departs Adweek

Sara Jerde, a publishing editor at Adweek, has left the publication.

“The people make a newsroom and it was a privilege to work alongside such talent,” she wrote on Twitter.

She had been in that role for the past year. She had also been reporting on the business of news organizations, while taking on some editing duties, including the publication’s 2020 coverage. 

Sara Jerde

Adweek covers publishers, traditional and digital media and their intersection with advertising for the trade publication’s magazine and website. 

Jerde has been with Adweek for about two and a half years.

Prior to her employment there, she worked at NJ Advance Media as a reporter, as a writer for Talking Points Memo and Ohio Today and as a managing editor at The Post Athens. 

Jerde has an associate’s degree in social sciences and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ohio University. 

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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