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Biz editor says goodbye

Mike Benbow, the business editor of The Everett Herald in Washington state, is leaving his post, and writes about how his regular column has influenced his recognition in the city.

Benbow writes, “Since then, I’ve been recognized more often then I’d like for that picture. More people than I want to admit have commented in recent years that I look considerably older than that picture.

“The most recent comment, a nice one, came at Costco the Sunday before last as I slipped in looking a little grubby and sloppily dressed. ‘I enjoy your column,’ a shopper said as she walked by.

“Nice to hear, I thought, wishing that I wasn’t wearing sweatpants and had shaved at some point during the weekend.

“This is sort of a rambling way of saying that the picture, with me included, is being retired.

“For the past 15 years or so, I’ve tried to use this column to write about business people and events and to pass along all the information I could get about what consumer scams were going around and how to prevent them.”

Read more here.

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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