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Spokane biz editor to become school spokesman

Scott Maben

Scott Maben, the business editor of The Spokesman-Review, has been named director of communications for the Coeur d’Alene Public Schools.

Maben previously managed their Coeur d’Alene bureau as deputy city editor.

Before coming to Coeur d’Alene, Maben was a news reporter for The Register Guard in Eugene, Oregon. He also spent two years as the editor of the Redmond Spokesman, a weekly newspaper, from 1995 to 1997. Before that, he was a reporter for The Bend Bulletin for four years, covering natural resources and the environment.

He has a Bachelor of Science degree, journalism major from the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.

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.

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