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Rockford business editor leaving paper

Jack Burke, the business editor at the Rockford Register Star in Illinois, is leaving the paper at the end of the week.

Burke will be an editor at High Velocity Communications in Waukesha, Wis. HVC is an independent publisher that specializes in custom publications from publication creation, layout and design, field research, editorial planning and editing and other things.

Burke was business editor for justÂ more thanÂ a year, being named to the post in August 2006. Before that, heÂ was assistant metro editor at the Register Star for three years.

“My replacement is Deborah Austin, who has worked as a business reporter at the Register Star since mid-October, but she has lived and worked in Rockford for 11 years,” said Burke to Talking Biz News.

Austin, 53, was a business reporter for eight years at the News-Press, a daily newspaper in Fort Myers, Fla. After moving to Rockford, she worked for several years as a freelance correspondent for IndustryWeek, a national publication for manufacturing executives. She also wrote for national business-to-business marketing publications.

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.