Rieder, media columnist for USA Today Money section, laid off

Rem Rieder, who has been writing a media column for USA Today’s Money section for the past three years, was among those laid off at the paper as part of Gannett’s announcement earlier this week to drop 2 percent of its staff.

Rieder had joined the paper as media columnist and editor at large in July 2013 after a long career at the now-defunct American Journalism Review, where he had been editor since 1991.

Before that, Rieder had been executive editor of States News Service from 1989 to 1991 and assistant managing editor for news at the Milwaukee Journal. He was also a deputy metro editor for the Washington Post and a city editor for the Miami Herald.

Rieder is a graduate of Harvard University.

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.