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Williams named business editor of Tennessee daily

G. Chambers Williams III, business editor, Knoxville News Sentinel.

G. Chambers Williams III has been named business editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel.

A story on its website states, “Before joining the News Sentinel in March as assistant business editor, Williams was editor of the LaFollette Press. Before that, he was a business writer for The Tennessean in Nashville from 2008-2014.

“Before joining The Tennessean, he was a business writer and automotive columnist for the San Antonio Express-News; transportation writer and automotive columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram; automotive/business writer for The Orange County Register, Santa Ana, Calif.; editor of the Phoenix Business Journal; copy editor for the Charlotte Observer; and managing editor of the Bristol (Va.-Tenn.) Herald Courier.

“He lives in Norris.

Amy Nolan, who had served as executive business editor, will resume her previous position as editor and publisher of the Greater Knoxville Business Journal.”

Read more here.

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.

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