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Melvin takes buyout from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Chuck Melvin

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s assistant managing editor for business Chuck Melvin is among the employees accepting a buyout offer from owner Gannett Co., reports Rich Kirchen of Milwaukee Business Journal.

Melvin has been at the Journal Sentinel since November 2005.

Before that, he worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer as deputy business editor from April 2000 to November 2005. He also spent two years as a tech reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Melvin spent more than 17 years at the Associated Press. He is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati and Ohio State University.

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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