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Velazco among the Washington Post layoffs

Chris Velazco

Washington Post personal technology reporter Chris Velazco was among the layoffs on Wednesday.

He has been at the paper since July 2021.

Velazco previously was a senior editor at Engadget, where he led the site’s coverage of the mobile industry for seven years. In addition to helping readers grapple with new technology through reviews and feature reporting, he hosted more than 120 videos and co-hosted the official Best of CES awards in early 2021.

He has also has been a staff writer at TechCrunch, where he reported on early-stage startups in New York and Philadelphia and helped scout for companies to participate in the publication’s Disrupt Battlefield competition.

He holds a BA in English and a BS in Marketing from Rutgers University-Camden.

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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