Categories: OLD Media Moves

Sun-Times biz editor quits

Robert Feder of TimeOutChicago reports that Chicago Sun-Times business editor Polly Smith has quit to go into public relations.

Feder writes that “Smith has resigned after 13 years at the paper to become content manager for marketing communications at Loyola University Health Systems.

“‘To say that we are sorry to see her go would be an understatement,’ Sun-Times Media editor-in-chief Jim Kirk told staffers, calling Smith ‘a terrific editor, unflappable, and by any measure, one hell of a journalist.’

Smith previously worked for the Times of Northwest Indiana and the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. The move comes as the Sun-Times prepares to eliminate its business section and outsource content to Grid, a separate publication of parent company Wrapports LLC. ‘I really had been looking forward to working with Grid, but this is just exactly the job I wanted for a career change,’ Smith said.”

Read more here. Smith earned a B.A. degree in economics and English from Albion College in Michigan, and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York City.

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.