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Entertainment industry reporter Voytko-Best departs Forbes

Lisette Voytko-Best

Lisette Voytko-Best, who covered the entertainment industry for Forbes, has left the publication.

Voytko-Best is moving to England.

“I’m inescapably sad to leave a place that has meant so much professionally, and gutted to no longer work with my talented, hilarious colleagues,” she wrote on LinkedIn.

She was a senior entertainment reporter at Forbes focusing on deal making and earnings in Hollywood, television, music, influencing and everything in between.

Previously, she was an entertainment reporter, and before that, has served as a wealth reporter and breaking news reporter. She has also worked freelance. She was formerly a politics reporter at the Gotham Gazette.

Voytko graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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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