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Tampa Bay Biz Journal reporter Torrance departs for grad school

Luke Torrance

Luke Torrance, a reporter at the Tampa Bay Business Journal, has left the paper to go to graduate school.

He had been covering money and public companies and joined the paper in 2020 from the Pittsburgh Business Times. Both are owned by American City Business Journals.

Before joining the Pittsburgh publication in late 2019, Torrance previously worked as a reporter for Blank Slate Media, covering the Port Washington, New York, area. He wrote most of the stories that appeared in the Port Washington Times, as well as shooting most of the photos and writing the headlines for the stories in that paper. 

He also covered the Nassau County government for stories featured in all Blank Slate Media papers.

Torrance is an Ohio University graduate with a major in journalism and a minor in political science.

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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