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GrepBeat MC McEntegart departs

Pete McEntegart

Pete McEntegart, the managing editor for GrepBeat, is leaving the tech news organization after six years.

GrepBeat covers technology and innovation news in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina.

“Almost six years later, GrepBeat is a real part of the Triangle’s startup ecosystem that can stand on its own without me,” said McEntegart in a LinkedIn post.

He previously was a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. He also worked as a reporter for the Daily Advertiser in Lafayette, Louisiana.

McEntegart holds a bachelor’s degree from Williams College and a master’s degree from the 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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