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Plain Dealer lays off real estate reporter Jarboe

Michelle Jarboe

Michelle Jarboe, the commercial real estate reporter at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, has been laid off by the paper.

The move comes after the paper laid off four other staffers from its business desk last week. The newspaper laid off 10 of its remaining 14 Guild members on Friday.

On Facebook, she wrote, “It has been a privilege covering real estate in this community for 12-plus years. I’m grateful to everyone who trusted me to tell a story, to hardworking colleagues at The Plain Dealer and Cleveland(dot)com – and, most of all, to the readers.”

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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