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NY Times deputy biz editor Lattman leaving

New York Times deputy business editor Peter Lattman is leaving the newspaper for a job at the Emerson Collective, a philanthropic organization created by Steve Jobs’ widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, reports Joe Pompeo of Politico.

Pompeo writes, “In an email to associates that was forwarded to POLITICO, Lattman said he will be the Collective’s managing director of media, a role in which he will ‘oversee Emerson’s media initiatives and help develop its strategy around supporting and investing in journalism and other content.’

“(Possibly related? New York magazine recently reported that Jobs and former New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier have been talking about launching a new publication, ‘which among other things will seek to discuss the effects of technology on our lives and think critically about it.’)

“Lattman joined the Times six years ago from The Wall Street Journal, first as a financial reporter before he was named media editor. He was named deputy business editor in late 2014.”

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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.