Silicon Valley Biz Journal promotes AME, reporter retires

The Silicon Valley Business Journal has promoted one of its staffers to assistant managing editor while another staffer is retiring.

Editor in chief J. Jennings Moss writes, “Another change in the editing ranks of the Business Journal is the promotion of Ryan Fernandez to become assistant managing editor. Fernandez has worked for the SVBJ as an associate editor since 2013, tackling various writing and editing assignments for both print and online.

“Fernandez, who was promoted at the start of the year, is managing the production of the weekly print edition as well as SVBJ special sections. Those duties were most recently held by Lynn Peithman Stock, who left the Business Journal in late November to become narrative assigning editor of iPondr, a new digital publication focused on telling underreported topics.

“One final piece of Business Journal news to report: Veteran reporter Jody Meacham is retiring. Here’s his final cover story, a look at the financial challenges the city of San Jose faces because of Covid-19.”

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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.