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San Jose/Silicon Valley Biz Journal names new editor

Greg Baumann has been named the new editor of the San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal, an American City Business Journals paper.

Baumann has along career in businessjournalism.

In the past, he was editor of Television Week, published by Crain Communications Inc. For eight years, Baumann was L.A. bureau chief for Bloomberg.

He has also worked as the legal editor for the Daily Record in Baltimore and the assistant managing editor for Legal Times in Washington, D.C. He starts his new position March 6.

Baumann, who was on the board of the Los Angeles Press Club, was also an editor on the technology team at Bloomberg News. He has also been an editor covering legal issues at Bloomberg in the San Francisco and Washington bureaus.

He has a law degree from George Washington University.

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.