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Puget Sound Business Journal names Baker its publisher

Don Baker

Don Baker, the publisher of the Dayton Business Journal in Ohio, has been named publisher of its sister newspaper in Seattle, the Puget Sound Business Journal.

Baker has spent more than 20 years with the Business Journal, including stints as a reporter, senior reporter, associate editor and managing editor. He served as editor-in-chief of the Dayton Business Journal for 12 years before becoming publisher.

” I have been with the DBJ for 21 years, and it has been a great experience and I will miss everyone here,” he wrote on LinkedIn. “However, I’m excited for this new chapter and look forward to what lies ahead.”

A Dayton native, Baker is a 1995 graduate of Ball State University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and minor focuses in political science and history. He has won numerous journalism awards throughout his career for his time as a reporter and as an editor.

He also worked at the Cincinnati Post, Middletown Journal, Xenia Gazette and Springfield News-Sun as a reporter.

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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