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Tampa Tribune lays off business editor for second time in five years

The Tampa Tribune newspaper has laid off its business editor this week, the second time the paper has done so in the past five years.

Margie Plunkett had been the business editor since March 2013.

Back in December 2011, the paper also laid off business editor Dale Hokrein.

Plunkett had been a business reporter and assistant business editor for The (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel from 1999 to 2008. Before that, she worked as a business reporter for the Palm Beach Post and as a business editor of the Washington Times.

She is a graduate of Rowan University.

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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BlindingGlimpseoftheObvious says:
June 25, 2015 at 1:20 pm
Don't forget that the Tribune also laid off business editor Mark Guidera back around 2008 or so. I'm sure it's in your archives -- I'm not Mark, but we're out-of-touch friends.