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Sports Business Journal hires Keith as AME

Ted Keith

Ted Keith has joined Sports Business Journal as assistant managing editor.

Keith joins SBJ after more than 10 years at Sports Illustrated, where he had various editorial roles, from starting as a reporter in 2006 to eventually becoming senior editor from 2104 to 2017.

As senior editor, Keith was editor of SI’s front-of-the-book section, working with writers, reporters, art and photo staffers to produce an 8-10 page section every week covering cross section of sports subjects and personalities.

He previously led and managed all aspects of SI.com’s baseball and college basketball coverage, including budgeting, staffing and coordination of major events.

Keith also covered Major League Baseball and other sports. He covered major events and wrote and reported on breaking news, features and enterprise stories.

Keith, a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, was also a sports reporter for The Durham Herald-Sun from 2000 to 2002.

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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