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Quinn returning to San Jose daily as tech columnist

Michelle Quinn, who had been covering technology news for Politico, is returning to the San Jose Mercury News to be its technology columnist.

Betsy Rothstein of Fishbowl DC writes, “Michelle Quinn, Politico Pro’s Silicon Valley reporter and the publication’s only full-timer anywhere other than New York, Boston and D.C., leaves Politico after today. She’ll be a technology columnist for the San Jose Mercury-News, where she was previously employed.”

For 15 years, she covered Apple, Hewlett-Packard and digital entertainment for the Los Angeles Times, the Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle. Most recently, she wrote a general news blog for The New York Times and worked as a media adviser to Jerry Brown in his capacity as attorney general.

She’s a native of Wilmington, Del., and a graduate of the University of Delaware and the University of California, Berkeley.

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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.