Layoffs at NY Daily News include two biz journalists

The layoffs at the New York Daily News include two business journalists, reports Keith Kelly of the New York Post.

Kelly writes, “Phyllis Furman, who had been lured to the paper from Crain’s New York Business in 1997, got a pink skip along with her business reporting colleague, Elizabeth Lazarowitz, who is on maternity leave.”

Lazarowitz was an assistant business editor at the Daily News for the past three and a half years. She spent 14 years as a reporter at Reuters and has degrees from Michigan and Columbia.

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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.