Biz reporter Tollefson leaving Minnesota paper

Theodore Tollefson

Theodore Tollefson, a business reporter at the Post Bulletin in Rochester, Minnesota, is leaving the paper.

He plans to freelance.

“I’ve grown much as a journalist in my year spent working for this newspaper and am grateful for the opportunities I’ve had here and co-workers that helped in my growth,” he wrote on Twitter.

He is originally from Burnsville, Minn., and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls with a bachelor’s degree in journalism in December 2020.

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.