Doug Banks

Doug Banks is Executive Editor of the Boston Business Journal, where he oversees all editorial content of the company’s daily web site, multiple electronic newsletters, weekly print edition, and business events.
Under Doug’s leadership, the newsroom has received regional and national journalism awards for general excellence, breaking news, investigative and government reporting, and photography and design, from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the New England Newspaper & Press Association, New England Society of News Editors, and the National Association of Black Journalists, among others.
Doug appears regularly as a news analyst on New England Cable News, and is a frequent guest lecturer, speaker and panel moderator on issues from regional business and economic trends to communications, journalism and digital media.
Prior to his current role, he was publisher and editor of Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology, and served for three years as associate vice president for economic development at the University of Massachusetts President's Office, where his duties included developing strategic partnerships with state and federal government, business and industry, and where he managed a seed-fund investment program for faculty research projects. He also worked as an editor at Fast Company magazine from 1999 to 2001.
A native of Worcester, Mass., Banks has a wife and two college-aged children. He received a bachelor's degree in journalism and English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh. He has taught writing and journalism at multiple area colleges and universities, including Boston University and Emerson College. He also has served on the boards of several area nonprofits and is currently board treasurer at Calvary Christian Church in Lynnfield and board treasurer at WriteBoston Inc. in Roxbury.