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SF Biz Times reporter Rauber announces retirement

Chris Rauber

Chris Rauber, a business reporter for the San Francisco Business Times, announced that he is retiring at the end of October.

“I plan to continue writing on my own projects, including freelance journalism and possible book and other projects,” said Rauber in an email to Talking Biz News. “But ditching the 9-to-5 (actually more like the 7:30am to 7:15pm, counting commuting and longer hours).”

Rauber has been a reporter for the American City Business Journals paper since February 2004, covering the health care, nonprofits/philanthropy, and education beats. He also worked at the paper from October 1989 to May 1998 as associate editor and as its East Bay bureau chief.

He previously was a senior editor at HealthLeaders Magazine from November 1999 to August 2003. Rauber was also the San Francisco bureau chief for Modern Healthcare, a Crain publication from June 1998 to October 1999, covering the managed care industry nationally, as well as regional breaking news in Northern California, Alaska, Hawaii and the Pacific Northwest.

Rauber also edited trade publications from 1979 to 1983 for Miller Freeman Publications. He is a graduate from Brown University in English and American literature.

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.

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