Minnesota Public Radio biz reporter among those laid off

Martin Moylan

Minnesota Public Radio business reporter Martin Moylan was among those laid off at the news operation, it reports.

Moylan had been covering housing and had been at MPR since 2006. Before that, he spent 16 years at the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

He has been a reporter for more than 30 years. Before moving to Minnesota in the late 1980s, he worked for newspapers in Massachusetts and freelanced in China.

He has covered financial services, airlines, technology, telecommunications and other beats in his career.

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.