Raleigh paper names new assistant biz editor

David Bracken

Mary Cornatzer, the business editor at The (Raleigh) News & Observer, sent out the following staff announcement:

I am happy to announce that David Bracken will become our new assistant business editor.
David came to the N&O in December 2004 to cover eastern Wake County and within a couple of years had moved over to cover the City of Raleigh. He joined the business desk in the fall of 2009 to cover commercial real estate. It quickly became apparent that he could do much more. He has distinguished himself with is coverage of cereal makers, incentives, economic development and more.
David will keep his commercial real estate column for the time being. We will be hiring to fill his position.

Bracken replaces Alan Wolf, who left the paper last week to be a public relations person for a local hospital.

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.