Stone joins strat comm firm as senior director

Todd Stone has joined Rapp Strategies as its senior director. (PRNewsfoto/Rapp Strategies, Inc.)

Todd Stone, former business editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, has joined the strategic communications and public affairs firm Rapp Strategies Inc. as its senior director.

“The staff is energetic, smart and focuses on client needs over firm rewards,” Stone said in a statement. “Rapp Strategies’ strategic focus and commitment to service feel like the perfect fit for me.”

Stone had joined the Houston Chronicle in 2015 as its assistant managing editor for business and sports, but returned to Minnesota at the end of 2017.

He had previously worked as the assistant managing editor/business at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis

Stone had been at the Star Tribune from 2010 to 2015, 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.