Reading Eagle names new business editor

Evan Jones

Evan Jones has been named business editor of the Reading Eagle in Pennsylvania, and Lisa Scheid will take over as editor of Business Weekly.

A story on its website states, “Jones was hired as a business reporter in May 2014 and was soon promoted to assistant business editor. He will be responsible for daily production of the Eagle’s Money pages, which are published seven days a week.

“Jones grew up in Schuylkill County and attended Blue Mountain High School.

“He graduated from American University, where he worked as a sports correspondent for The Washington Post, and then began his fulltime career at his hometown newspaper, the Pottsville Republican. After stints at newspapers in Virginia and North Carolina, Jones first joined the Reading Eagle in the sports department in 2002.”

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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.