Categories: OLD Media Moves

South Carolina biz editor resigns for private business

Kristy Rupon, the business editor of The State in Columbia, S.C., is leaving the daily on Feb. 20 to take a job as a senior writer and editor with AgFirst Farm Credit Bank in Columbia.

Rupon started her career as an intern at The State in 1994 from Columbia College. She has been back at the paper for 12 years.

In addition to editing The State’s business pages and business reporters, Rupon also writes “Shop Around,” a popular column on retail developments in the Midlands.

“Leaving journalism was a hard decision and one that took a long time to make,” said Rupon in an email to Talking Biz News. “Ultimately, it was necessary for my well-being. A part of my heart will always be in the newsroom. But I am looking forward to my next chapter.”

Rupon, 41, also worked at the Camden (S.C.) Chronicle-Independent and Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald-Journal.

(photo credit: Kim Kim Foster-Tobin/The State)

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.