Youngstown biz journal names O’Brien its managing editor

Dan O'Brien

Dan O’Brien

Veteran reporter and associate editor Dan O’Brien has been named managing editor of The Business Journal in Youngstown, Ohio.

A story on its website states, “O’Brien’s editorial cartoons have graced The Business Journal since 1987. He became a full-time reporter in 1998 and was named associate editor in 2010. Most recently, his series of award-winning investigative reports, produced in partnership with ProPublica, that revealed the extent of the Chill-Can debacle and the failures of the city’s tax abatement policies.”

In addition, The Business Journal named a chief financial/technology officer and a chief operating officer.

Eileen Lovell, who joined the company in 1987 as a part-time bookkeeper and became treasurer and assistant publisher in 2003, has been named chief financial/technology officer.

Michael Moliterno, anchor of the Daily BUZZ webcast, has been named chief operating officer. Moliterno joined the company in 2009 as a videographer and was named vice president of operations in 2015.

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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.