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Pacific Coast Business Times losing two staffers, third looking to leave

The Pacific Coast Business Times, a business weekly newspaper based in Santa Barbara, Calif., is losing three of its staffers, reports editor and founder Henry Dubroff.

Marlize van Romburgh, managing editor, will be attending law school in the fall in the Bay Area at either Santa Clara or UC Hastings. She has been at the paper since June 2009. She graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo with a bachelor’s in journalism and a minor in economics.

Christine de la Cruz, staff writer, is taking a position with the UC Santa Barbara chancellor’s office — she will be working directly with Chancellor Henry Yang, also known as “the other Henry,” said Dubroff. She covers tourism, health care and agribusiness. She also worked on the copy desk of Newsday and as a multiplatform editor at the Los Angeles Times.

Stephen Nellis, tech editor, is actively job hunting in the Bay Area and hopes to land a position covering the technology industry so that he can join van Romburgh on her new adventure. Nellis is a Missouri graduate and also covers law and politics for the paper.

“The idea is for me to mentor my eventual replacement for a few weeks/months,” said Nellis in an email to Talking Biz News. “I’ve been here six years so I have a lot of beat knowledge to transfer over.”

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.

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remc says:
February 28, 2014 at 9:27 pm
Give me a break. PCBT hasn't made a profit in years. Dumkoff is just telling his writing staff to leave because he can't pay them.He'll probably hire another bunch of unskilled college grad who have never covered business before and try to make it with his mom's money.