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Quittner, former Business 2.0 editor, leaving Time

Josh Quittner, the former editor of the tech-oriented business magazine Business 2.0 and later a columnist with Fortune, is leaving Time Inc., reports Keith Kelly of the New York Post.

Kelly writes, “Quittner, a 15-year veteran of the nation’s largest publisher, said he is leaving to join Flipboard, a small Palo Alto-based start-up as its editorial director.

“‘I’ll start after the July 4th holiday,’ he told Media Ink. ‘I want to give [Time Inc. editor-in-chief] John Huey time to take me out for a really good party.’

“Quittner, joined Time magazine in 1995 from Newsday to write about what was then the fledgling Internet. In April 2002, he was dispatched to San Francisco as editor of its new media magazine, Business 2.0, which folded in 2007.

“From there he was one of the Business 2.0 survivors to land at Fortune.

“Most recently, the 54-year-old Manhattan native served as director of digital editorial development for the news, sports and business magazines.”

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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.