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Ray named editor of Journal Record in Oklahoma City

Russell Ray

Business journalist Russell Ray has been hired as editor of The Journal Record, a business and legal newspaper based in Oklahoma City.

A story on its website states, “For the last seven years, Ray has been editor-in-chief of Power Engineering magazine and chairman of POWER-GEN International.

“Power Engineering is the world’s largest business-to-business magazine for the power sector, serving more than 70,000 readers. Ray was responsible for all editorial content, including a regular column he wrote on energy policy, pricing and technology.

“Previously, Ray was a business reporter for The Tampa TribuneTulsa World and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. For eight years, he covered the energy industry in Oklahoma and Texas for the Tulsa World. He has also covered the insurance market in Florida along with energy and agriculture for The Tampa Tribune. In total, Ray has spent 25 years in journalism.”

Read more here.

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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