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MJBiz lays off reporter Casacchia

Chris Casacchia

Chris Casacchia, a reporter at cannabis industry publication MJBiz, has been laid off.

He has been with the publication since August 2022 and is based in Los Angeles.

Casacchia previously was technology editor at the Orange County Business Journal. He also worked at the publication covering finance, the economy, manufacturing and the business of sports.

He previously covered banking and finance, sports business and media for the Phoenix Business Journal. He has been a contributing writer for Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal and a correspondent for Sporting News.

After graduating from Western Illinois University in 2000 with a bachelor’s in journalism, Ca-acchia worked for a publisher of suburban and city newspapers in metro Chicago.

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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