NECN cuts business editor Howe

Peter Howe

NECN, the cable news network in Boston owned by Comcast, has cut business editor Peter Howe from its staff, reports David Harris, associate editor of the Boston Business Journal.

Harris writes, “In a post on Facebook on Monday afternoon, Howe said the move by the station is effective this week. NBCUniversal, the media company owned by Philadelphia-based Comcast, is in the process of launching its own NBC station in Boston to be based at the NECN studios in Newton and ending its affiliate agreement with WHDH.

“‘As the ownership ramps up the NBC Boston channel, my skill-set, talents, and background are different from the priorities for NBC Boston, and as coach Belichick would say, it is what it is,’ said Howe in the post. ‘It’s been a fantastic 8-year ride.’

“Howe was previously a reporter and editor at the Boston Globe before joining NECN in 2008 to serve as business editor.”

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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.