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Dallas Morning News personal tech columnist Rossman departs

Jim Rossman

Jim Rossman, who has written a personal technology column for the Dallas Morning News for the past 23 years, is leaving the paper.

Rossman writes, “Back in the late 1990s, the Personal Technology section editor, the late Bob Bersano, asked me to start writing a weekly column called the Tech Adviser.

“At the time, all I did was answer questions from readers about their tech issues. The News had a great group of people producing a stand-alone Personal Technology section each week, and I was honored to be part of that group. In the early and mid-2000s, the PTech section was reduced to coverage inside the business section once a week.

“Eventually I was the last man standing, and I’ve been writing the entire Personal Technology page for years now, including product reviews and my original column.

“I’m so grateful to The Dallas Morning News business staff, including everyone who ever had to edit my copy. For the last handful of years, that’s been Laura Jacobus, who is always patient with me when I just end a sentence midthought.”

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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.

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  • Neither Jim Rossman nor The Dallas Morning News has announced why. his Personal Technology column is ending.
    Any insights?
    Hope you can determine what's happened.
    Thanks.

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