Categories: OLD Media Moves

Longtime News & Observer biz editor leaving paper

Mary Cornatzer

Mary Cornatzer, the growth and business editor of The (Raleigh) News & Observer, announced on Facebook Thursday that she has accepted the McClatchy buyout offer and is leaving the paper.

Her last day is Thursday.

Cornatzer wrote, “The N&O has been good to me for a very long time and that I am leaving because I am ready while I still have time to make contributions elsewhere is a wonderful thing. I’m excited and I’m happy though I know today — my last day and that of several colleagues — will be sad.”

She has overseen the reporters covering the economy, transportation and health care since August 2017. Before that, she was enterprise editor, state government editor, business editor and assistant business editor.

At the business section’s heyday, she managed a staff of 12 reporters, two assistant editors and two copy editors.

Cornatzer, a UNC-Chapel Hill alumnus, started at the paper as a music critic.

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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