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Biz reporter Yowell leaving Omaha daily

Paige Yowell

Paige Yowell, the retail reporter at the Omaha World-Herald, is leaving the paper for a job in Colorado.

Yowell is becoming a reporter at Westword, the alternative weekly in Denver. She starts there on Sept. 4.

Since the beginning of the year, the Omaha paper has laid off two reporters and cut its standalone business section. Another business reporter who covered the food and farm beat left for a job at the University of Nebraska.

Yowell covered retailing, from local boutiques to Fortune 1000 companies. She also kept tabs on retail development and trends. She had been at the World-Herald since September 2013.

She is a graduate of the University of Nebraska and interned for Silicon Prairie News covering technology before joining the World-Herald.

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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