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Businessweek.com news editor leaving for OC Register

Longtime Businessweek.com editor Dan Beucke, who for the last several years worked on the website, is leaving the magazine to become deputy business editor of the Orange County Register.

Beucke was named Businessweek.com news director in December 2007.  Prior to that he was the senior editor for technology at Bloomberg Businessweek, responsible for editing the magazine’s stories on computers, software, and the Internet.

Previously, he was editor of the UpFront section and a deputy editor responsible for editing a variety of stories on companies, corporate governance, strategies, marketing, and business people.

Beucke came to Bloomberg Businessweek from Newsday, the Long Island newspaper, in December, 1997, as an associate editor.

Previous to that, he was business editor of  New York Newsday. He also has worked as an editor and reporter for the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News, the Denver Post and the Orange County (Calif.) Register, and has taught editing and other journalism subjects at Columbia University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Beucke holds BAs in economics and communications from the California State Universities at San Jose and Fullerton.

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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