San Diego Biz Journal names new editor, new managing editor

The San Diego Business Journal has named Vik Jolly as editor-in-chief and Stephen Adamek as managing editor.

A story on the Times of San Diego website reports, “Jolly succeeds Nels Jensen, who left in December after four years to pursue other career opportunities. Adamek is filling Jolly’s past role.

“Jolly, who had served as the newspaper’s managing editor since September 2017, has worked as a journalist for nearly three decades with stints at the Orange County Register, Associated Press and newspapers in Hawaii and Palm Springs.

“‘We’ll stay focused on a singular goal: provide indispensable business intelligence for San Diego’s dynamic business community,’ Jolly said. ‘And, we’ll continue to elevate our journalism with contextualized stories that speak to businesses across the region.’

“‘When the editor-in-chief position opened up, there was no question who my first choice was to fill it — Vik,’ said Barb Chodos, publisher of the Journal.”

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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.