Tampa biz editor loses job Monday

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE

Dale Hokrein, the editor at the Tampa Tribune who oversaw the paper’s business news coverage, was among those who were laid off at the paper on Monday. The Tribune and its sister papers laid off 165 staffers Monday.

Hokrein had been at the paper since December 2004, specializing in investigative and enterprise reporting. He received high marks from the reporters who worked for him. On his Twitter feed, Hokrein noted he already had two leads on new jobs.

Before working at the Tribune, a Media General paper, he was business editor at the Florida Times-Union for four years and six months, leading a 10-person desk where he also helped connect the newspaper’s coverage with a local broadcast station.

Hokrein was also the editor of the Augusta Chronicle from 1998 to 2000 and was the inaugural editor of the Atlanta Business Chronicle, a monthly tab magazine on local business news from the Chronicle.

He is a 1987 graduate of Covenant College.

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.