Todd Stone, a longtime business journalist who joined the Houston Chronicle two years ago as its assistant managing editor for business and sports, has left the paper.
His last day was Friday.
Stone is returning to Minnesota, where he had previously worked as the assistant managing editor/business at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis
Stone had been at the Star Tribune since 2010, overseeing a staff of 21. During his years in Minneapolis, his department won the SABEW general excellence award twice, as well as the Loeb Award for breaking news in 2012.
Prior to joining the Star Tribune, Stone was the business and enterprise editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, regional editor of the Denver Post and city editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
He has an undergraduate degree in journalism as well as an MBA from Texas A&M.