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N&O biz reporter leaves for academic job

Tim Simmons, a reporter on The (Raleigh) News & Observer business desk who covered the business of academia, has left the paper to become a vice president of communications for a local education initiative, the Wake Education Partnership.

Simmons, 50, spent most of his career at The N&O  covering the state’s public schools. He also wrote about issues  involving early childhood development, community colleges and local universities.

Other stories during his career at The N&O  addressed rapid growth in Wake County’s schools, campus coverage of N.C. State  University and business  issues involving higher education.

Simmons covered local government at The Cincinnati Post before joining The N&O in 1987. He also worked for newspapers in Covington, Ky., and Battle Creek, Mich.,  after graduating with a degree in journalism from Michigan State  University in 1981.

The N&O business desk is now down to seven reporters and two editors. It had been at 10 reporters and three editors at the beginning of the year.

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