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Former LATimes deputy biz editor joins PR firm

Glenn Bunting, the former deputy business editor of the Los Angeles Times who took the newspaper’s buyout earlier, has accepted a job to go work for the Sitrick & Co. PR firm.

According to the LAObserved web site, “The release on Bunting from Sitrick mentions that they met during coverage of the archdiocese, and also lists some of the other former journalists now working at Sitrick’s agency:

Bunting joins a cadre of other former journalists at Sitrick such as Seth Faison, a former reporter and Shanghai Bureau Chief for the New York Times and editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times; Jason Booth, former economics correspondent for the Wall Street Journal; Lew Phelps, another former Journal staffer; Tammy Taylor, an Emmy winning former broadcast journalist, and Tony Knight, a veteran broadcast journalist and former City Editor for the L.A. Daily News.

“Not mentioned is former WSJ columnist John Lippman (or Ross Johnson, formerly of the Daily Journal, Hollywood Reporter and elsewhere.) Bunting will ‘work directly with Mike Sitrick, the firmÁ-?s founder and chairman on a wide variety of client matters,’ the release says. At the Times, Bunting was one of the senior staffers who was detailed early on to last year’s Spring Street Project looking into ways of reinventing the paper.”

Read more here. Bunting supervised the entertainment and technology coverage at the paper.

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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