St. Pete Catalyst’s Manning has retired

Margie Manning

Margie Manning, the finance editor at a digital startup, the St. Petersburg Catalyst, has retired.

Manning previously was the finance editor at the Tampa Bay Business Journal before joining the startup Catalyst nearly three years ago.

She had been at the Business Journal from March 2004 to September 2018.

Manning started her journalism career as a radio news reporter in St. Louis, before putting down her microphone and picking up a pen to work at the St. Louis Business Journal.

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.