South Florida Biz Journal promotes Reiser to managing editor

Emon Reiser

The South Florida Business Journal has named Emon Reiser to be its managing editor.

Former managing editor Michael Adams left the paper last week to move to Austin, Texas.

Associate editor Eileen Cukier reports, “Reiser, previously the digital editor, will oversee newsroom operations under the direction of Editor-in-Chief Mel Meléndez.

“Her responsibilities include supervising and editing reporters, and the dissemination of crucial business news across various publishing platforms, including online, mobile, email, print and social media.

“‘Emon is an award-winning journalist and an experienced digital editor with a thorough understanding of our mission,’ Meléndez said. ‘I’m thrilled to have her in this key role.’

“Business Journal President and Publisher Melanie Dickinson also lauded Reiser’s promotion.”

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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.