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Atlanta Business Chronicle lays off copy editor

Tom Russo, a copy editor for the Atlanta Business Chronicle for the past 15 years, has been laid off.

In an email to Talking Biz News, Russo wrote:

This is an indication of how the media world is changing. That’s not a bad thing — just a real one. Video didn’t kill the radio star, and magazines and newspapers aren’t going anywhere.

The delivery method may change, and affect some of us. I believe Edward R. Murrow (and I do not fit in that class at all) worked in both radio and TV. One door has closed; more will open.

Russo was previously a copy editor for the Delaware State News. He is a graduate of SUNY-Oswego.

David Allison, the editor of the Atlanta Business Chronicle, did not reply to a message seeking comment.

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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