Jackson Heading to Journal-Constitution

Andre Jackson, assistant managing editor for business at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, will be leaving the paper March 21 to take a new position as an editorial writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
A native of St. Louis, Jackson has worked at the Post-Dispatch nearly 21 years, starting as a general assignment reporter in 1987. He has held a series of other posts, including suburban editor and weekend editor.
He moved to the business desk shortly after earning a master’s in business administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in 1996.
“It’s a hard call to make to leave your hometown but they approached me and it’s an opportunity to do something different and stretch a part of my brain I haven’t journalistically in writing opinion pieces,” he said.
His editorials will focus on the economy and business.
His last day at the Post-Dispatch will be March 21 and he’ll begin his new job on April 14.“I’m going back to what I loved when I started in this business, which is reporting and writing,” he said. “I’ll just add a new trick in writing opinions.”