Triad Biz Journal ME Moffett is departing

Margaret Moffett

Margaret Moffett, the managing editor at the Triad Business Journal, is departing the American City Business Journals paper.

Her last day will be Sept. 27. Moffett plans to do some freelance writing and teach at a community college.

She had been with the paper since June 2018.

Moffett, a native of North Wilkesboro, has spent the bulk of her career at The (Greensboro) News & Record, having first joined the newspaper in 1995. She has held multiple roles during her time at the News & Record, including as assistant city editor and assistant sports editor. She also covered Greensboro City Hall and Guilford County government, and was the newspaper’s database reporter.

Moffett holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from UNC-Greensboro.

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.