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Denver Post lays off biz columnist

Penny Parker, who wrote a column for the Denver Post business section, has been laid off, according to her Twitter and Facebook feeds.

Parker had been writing a column on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. She joined the Post in February 2009 after its rival, The Rocky Mountain News, closed. She had been working at the Rocky.

Ironically, Parker had left the Post after six years to join the Rocky as its On the Town columnist.

Parker’s background includes seven years as a feature writer at The (Everett) Herald, a Washington Post-owned newspaper in Washington state, and a short stint as managing editor for two weeklies near Bellevue, Wash.

As a feature writer, she won numerous awards, as well as a Society of American Business Editors and Writers award for business writing. Parker is a California native and graduate of San Francisco State University.

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.