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Women exerting more influence in business journalism

Dean Rotbart, the editor of TJFR Business News Reporter 2.0, writes that women are becoming more influential in the world of business journalism.

Examples include Portfolio editor Joanne Lipman, Betty Wong of Reuters and Becky Bisbee, the business editor of the Seattle Times.

Rotbart wrote, “Like sports journalism, business journalism was long the near-exclusive bastion of male reporters. With a few notable exceptions — such as Carol J. Loomis of Fortune and syndicated personal finance columnist Sylvia Porter — few women before the 1970s merited a byline in the eyes of their male editors.

“Well, brothers and sisters, the times they have a-changed.

“At some influential news organizations, the number of female editorial business news staffers today surpasses that of men. Moreover, slowly, but surely, women are taking the reins at a growing number of influential business news outlets.”

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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.