Categories: OLD Media Moves

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.

View Comments

  • This is further indication people are leaving MSM lies to get something other than the official narrative.

Recent Posts

Bloomberg hires FT’s Noonan as a senior reporter

Bloomberg News has hired Laura Noonan in London as a senior reporter covering a broad financials beat.…

2 hours ago

FT taps Jilani as Pakistan correspondent

The Financial Times has named Humza Jilani as its Pakistan correspondent. He has been an…

2 hours ago

Stoller hired as editorial director of Fortune Live Media

Kristin Stoller has been hired as an editorial director of Fortune Live Media. She was most…

2 hours ago

A biz newspaper competing with the daily

Brad Kane, the editor of the Worcester Business Journal, writes about competing with the daily…

2 hours ago

Former WSJ staffer Hawkins launches 10-part podcast

APM Studios and award-winning journalist Lee Hawkins are launching “What Happened in Alabama?,” a limited…

2 hours ago

Business Insider reporter Mok departs to freelance

Business Insider reporter Aaron Mok has left the news organization to become a freelancer. Mok was a…

2 hours ago