Virginia Business ME leaves for government job

Jessica Sabbath Smith

Jessica Sabbath Smith, the managing editor of Virginia Business, has left for a position with the Virginia state government.

Smith is now managing editor at the Joint Legislative Audit & Review Commission. She had been managing editor of the magazine for the past 10 months.

Smith has been with the magazine since 2006 and previously also special projects editor for the magazine. She has won many awards from Alliance of Area Business Publications and the Virginia Press Association during her tenure with the magazine.

Before joining Virginia Business, she was a reporter for the Winchester Star newspaper in Virginia.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Richmond and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

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.