South Dakota newspaper is starting a business magazine

Chris Huber

The Rapid City Journal in South Dakota is planning a monthly business magazine highlighting local leaders and ideas driving economic development and growth in the Black Hills.

A story on its website states, “The magazine will be called Black Hills Business, and the first issue will be published in late June. It will be inserted into the Sunday edition of the Rapid City Journal and will also be available for free at locations throughout the Black Hills.

“The Journal’s Chris Huber is leaving his position as editor of the newspaper to become general manager of the magazine. Pat Butler, the Journal’s managing editor, will serve as interim editor.

“Huber is a Black Hills native who was born in Rapid City and grew up in Lead/Deadwood and Hot Springs. He has been with the Rapid City Journal for six years. During that time, he has served as photographer, photo editor, managing editor and editor.”

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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.