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Philly Deals column goes from daily to weekly

The Philly Deals column written daily for the past four years by Philadelphia Inquirer business reporter Joe DiStefano is returning to a weekly feature.

DiStefano writes, “I started writing this column five years ago last month, at the invitation of then-Inquirer Business editor Tony Gnoffo, after returning here from a fun stint on Bloomberg’s New York finance team.

“It was a weekly column at first. But in July 2008, new business editor Brian Toolan asked whether I could write it every day, like an ink-stained wretch from an earlier time. I couldn’t resist the challenge. Since then, I’ve written Philly Deals on deadline four or five days each week.

“Until now. PhillyDeals is going weekly again, now on Wednesdays. I’ll be doing other, longer stories – on government business and tax programs, on how things work, and profiles like the one I’m drafting on Dell president Felice, a Mayfair kid who’s prospered in the tech wars – and I hope you’ll be reading those, too.

“I’m continuing the popular business blog and Web page at www.philly.com/phillydeals, with breaking news, interviews and links, context, and your comments. Some of those items will be updated to our daily print editions.”

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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.