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Newsweek/Daily Beast biz reporter joins BuzzFeed

Matthew Zeitlin, a business reporter for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, is joining the business news desk of BuzzFeed, which is preparing for its official rollout.

Zeitlin’s work has also been published in The Atlantic, The Daily and The New Republic. He has also written for Bloomberg View.

He is a Northwestern graduate.

The BuzzFeed business news desk also includes Sapna Maheshwari from Bloomberg News, Matt Lynley from The Wall Street Journal, and Mariah Summers, who worked for Money-Media, a subsidiary of the Financial Times, as a reporter.

BuzzFeed’s business editor is Peter Lauria, who formerly worked at Reuters and on the New York Post business desk.

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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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