Categories: OLD Media Moves

Texas paper names new business editor

Barry Harrell, 40, has been named business editor of the Austin American-Statesman, interim editor Debbie Hiott announced Friday.

A story on the paper’s website states, “Harrell, who has been an assistant news editor and business reporter since joining the Statesman staff in 2007, has been serving as interim business editor since Kathy Warbelow retired as business editor in June.

“‘I’ve often said that the new economy is one of the best stories in the world, and Austin is a terrific vantage point for covering it,’ Harrell said.

“Harrell came to Texas and the Statesman from the St. Petersburg Times, where he served for seven years as a senior copy editor and national wires editor. He previously worked for newspapers in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and Florida.

“At the Statesman, Harrell first served as assistant news editor, sharing management responsibility for a staff of about 20 news design and copy editors and for content decisions for Page One and other news section fronts. In 2010, he moved to the business staff to report and write on a wide range of local businesses, events and issues.”

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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.