Washington Biz Journal’s Hansen to oversee new Richmond biz site

Drew Hansen

Drew Hansen, the assistant managing editor of the Washington Business Journal, has been tapped to oversee the parent company’s launch of a new website covering business news in Richmond, Virginia.

He will remain in the Washington area and keep his duties at the Washington Business Journal, but will travel to Richmond frequently.

Parent company American City Business Journals is seeking to hire a reporter in Richmond.

Hansen has been with the Business Journal since July 2014 and has been assistant managing editor in charge of its digital strategy for the past two years.

He previously worked at the Daily Progress in Charlottesville, Virginia, and The Washington Times.

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.