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Columbia Tribune biz editor leaving for fellowship

Liz Heitzman, the business editor of the Columbia Tribune in Missouri, is leaving the paper for a nine-month fellowship at the University of Missouri, which is also based in Columbia.

Heitzman wrote, “For the past two years, I have been the Tribuneâ€™s business editor. From a redesign of this section to the addition of daily theme business pages, itâ€™s been a dynamic time. In this role, Iâ€™ve transitioned away from daily reporting and instead coach and mentor reporters like Kevin Coleman and Pamela Mulumby, who have taught me much about being an editor.

“The first time I was mentioned in the Tribune was in November 1977. My folks were living in El Chaparral – my father worked in banking, and my mother was a piano teacher. I was born the day after Halloween.

“Itâ€™s been an honor to have been here all these years. Iâ€™m always going to have history with this newspaper. And Iâ€™ll always be thankful to Jim Robertson for bringing me back into the business.”

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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.