Stone, AME for business at Houston Chronicle, returning to Minnesota

Todd Stone

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.

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.