Paul Hughes has rejoined the Orange County Business Journal as a reporter and Web editor.
He’ll cover hospitality and education, as well as oversee daily coverage for the publication’s website and various e-news alerts, including the Daily Update.
The Daily Update has about 40,000 subscribers (visit ocbj.com for free subscriptions to the Daily Update and other regular e-news reports for various industries).
Hughes lives in Orange and is a veteran journalist whose resume includes a stint as a staff reporter for the Business Journal in the mid-1990s. Paul also has written for Cypress Magazines in San Diego, Entrepreneur Magazine in Irvine, and CDMG Inc. in Torrance, among other publications and organizations.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Southern California, a master’s in English from Chapman University, an MFA in Fiction from Chapman, and a master’s in Apologetics from Biola University.
Hughes can be reached at hughes@ocbj.com and (949) 833-8373, ext. 236.
His arrival comes as Kari Hamanaka leaves the Business Journal after more than three years covering various beats and overseeing ocbj.com, Daily Updates and other e-news reports. Hamanaka has joined CRN, a technology trade publication with an online edition and digital newsletters, in addition to a monthly print product. She will serve as assistant managing editor/online in the Newport Beach office of CRN, a unit of Framingham, Mass.-based Channel Co.
Several of the beats that Hamanaka covered will shift to Mediha DiMartino, who covers media and marketing, among other areas. She will also cover OC-based automakers, the local retail sector and the apparel industry.
DiMartino can be reached at dimartino@ocbj.com or (949) 833-8373, ext. 224.
