Categories: OLD Media Moves

San Jose Biz Journal publisher resigns

Vintage Foster is resigning as publisher of the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal to take a position outside the publishing industry, according to a short story in the American City Business Journals paper. His last day will be Aug. 31.

The story stated, “His new position is expected to be announced next week.

“Foster is stepping down to take a role that allows him to be closer to his family.

“Foster has been publisher in San Jose for three and a half years. Before San Jose, he was publisher of the East Bay Business Times for more than four years. He joined American City Business Journals as associate publisher in San Jose in July 1998.”

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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.