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Little Rock daily ends tech column

Melissa Jones has stopped writing the Tech Spotlight column for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette after 18 years, writes Kyle Massey of Arkansas Business.

Massey writes, “Jones had written the weekly column, reviewing computers, phones and gadgets for the business section, since 1998. She wrote as a freelancer, and was a special sections advertising manager for the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette until April, when she left for a different job. ‘I intended to keep writing the column,’ she said, but it wasn’t to be.

“Jones hopes to write Tech Spotlight for another publication, and is searching for opportunities. ‘I hated to see it discontinued. My goal was to approach tech from a layman’s viewpoint and to translate tech talk into English,’ she said.

“The column’s end came as the Democrat-Gazette was cutting other freelance work, sources tell Outtakes.”

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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.