Schnick promoted to editor of Dallas Business Journal

Jeff Schnick

Jeffrey Schnick, the managing editor of the Dallas Business Journal, has been promoted to editor of the American City Business Journals’ publication.

He replaces Paul O’Donnell, who left to become the business editor of the Dallas Morning News.

Previously, Schnick was a designer for the Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentinel and the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel and assistant managing editor of the Abilene (Texas) Reporter News. He moved to the Dallas Morning News in 2007 as assistant business editor.

He moved to the Gannett Design Studio in Nashville, Tenn., in 2012 but returned to Dallas shortly thereafter as assistant business editor.

Schnick has been with the Dallas Business Journal for the past year. He came aboard in November 2014 when O’Donnell recruited him from the Morning News.

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.