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Forbes executive editor resigns

Brett Nelson, the executive editor at Forbes, has resigned and will leave the magazine on Friday, a spokeswoman confirmed to Talking Biz News.

He is moving to Tennessee for personal reasons.

Nelson has been with the magazine for 14 years. In 2005, he moved over to Forbes.com to launch a section covering entrepreneurs.

Nelson actually studied mechanical engineering after college. But after two years of working in a machine shop, he switched careers.

In his 14 years at Forbes, he wrote about large corporations, money managers and investment strategies — good and bad.

“For my money, though, the most fascinating subjects are self-made wealth builders,” he wrote on Forbes.com. “Now, as Executive Editor (with an M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business at NYU) overseeing coverage of entrepreneurs and small businesses, I get to share their triumphs and hard-won discoveries with the world.”

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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