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SF Chronicle biz columnist says goodbye

David Lazarus, the San Francisco Chronicle business columnist who is leaving the paper to become the business columnist at the Los Angeles Times next month, said goodbye to his Bay readers on Friday.

Lazarus wrote, “This isn’t goodbye. The Internet may be eating the lunch of most newspapers, but it also turns journalism into a movable feast. I have no doubt we’ll encounter one another again online.

“This column would be impossible without you, and I continue to welcome your tips and feedback. No matter where I am, I’ll keep doing what I do.

“Not that long ago, my young son finally got around to asking why Daddy’s picture appears in the newspaper.

“‘Well,’ I replied, ‘that’s because I try to help people and protect them from bad guys.'”

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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.