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Seattle Times biz editor Bisbee leaving paper

Seattle Times business editor Becky Bisbee is among 15 staffers whose buyout offers have been accepted by the newspaper, according to the Seattle Stranger.

Her last day is March 4.

“It has been a privilege to work at The Seattle Times,” said Bisbee in an email to Talking Biz News. “I have great respect for the newsroom staff. We’ve had a lot of fun in the Business department. I am proud of our work together.

“I admire Frank Blethen and the Blethen family for their stalwart support of independent, quality journalism. The Seattle community is lucky to have such dedicated stewards.”

Bisbee joined the paper in August 2000 after being business editor of The Austin American-Statesman.

Bisbee was business editor of the American-Statesman for five years. She began her business journalism career at the Modesto Bee in 1984 and rose to become its business editor as well.

A graduate of the University of Maryland, Bisbee has been heavily involved in business journalism in other ways as well. She served on the Society of American Business Editors and Writers board of governors for 10 years and chaired its technology committee. She spent seven years editing the SABEW publication “The Business Journalist” and also organized the 2005 national conference in Seattle.

In 2010, Bisbee received the President’s Award from SABEW.

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.