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Changes at Roanoke biz desk

Rob Johnson, business editor at the Roanoke (Va.) Times since 2005, has been named the daily’s first-ever writing coach and will also be a senior reporter in the metro department.

The move will be effective when a successor is found to lead the paper’s business team.

In addition, Times reporter Ray Reed,Â who most recently covered the health care industry,Â moves from the paper’s business teamÂ to the Lynchburg (Va.) News and Advance as political reporter.

And Times technology reporter Andrew Kantor has left The Times to pursue freelance writing.

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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Phillip G. says:
August 31, 2007 at 8:07 am
FYI, Reed was retired by the Times along with many other people at the paper. Don't know about the other two.