Snyder promoted to editor in chief of Nashville Biz Journal

Eric Snyder

Managing editor Eric Snyder has been promoted to editor in chief of the Nashville Business Journal.

He replaces Lori Becker, who became publisher of the paper.

Snyder has been managing editor since 2013. He previously was assistant managing editor. He joined the NBJ’s newsroom in 2009, writing about commercial real estate, retail and manufacturing for the paper’s print edition and the website. Before joining the Business Journal, Snyder was a reporter with the Leaf-Chronicle in Clarksville.

Snyder has covered real estate, retail, restaurants, manufacturing and transportation.

He is a 2005 graduate from the University of Memphis.

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.