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Dallas biz reporter loses job in layoffs

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE

Jason Roberson, who covered the business of health care for the Dallas Morning News for the past four years, was among the layoffs at the paper on Tuesday, a source on the business news desk confirmed to Talking Biz News.

A total of 38 journalists lost their jobs at the Belo paper.

Since joining the newspaper in 2007, Roberson has won first place journalism awards from the Dallas Bar Association and the Texas Medical Association.

During his 12-year journalism career he’s written about labor relations and the automotive industry for the Detroit Free Press; covered retail and manufacturing in Ohio at the Dayton Daily News; and written short business features for a host of weekly publications and magazines nationwide.

Roberson, a 2000 graduate of the University of North Texas, started his business journalism career with the Dallas Business Journal.

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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  • That's bad news for DMN readers. Jason took the time to understand the complex world of health care economics and explain it carefully and accurately. He will be missed.

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