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Tech Czar column ends in Cleveland paper

Michael DeAloia is ending his Tech Czar column in the Cleveland Plain Dealer after four years.

DeAloia writes, “While my Tech Czar Talk column is ending today, I will still be around Cleveland. I have a West Side media startup that needs my attention. And now that I am Entrepreneur in Residence for the City of Lakewood, I have a treasured civic engagement that I hope to grow into something special.

“The past four years have brought a lot of happiness into my life. And Cleveland (not to mention the region) has seen a national reawakening. I would like to think these happenings are linked or correlated. To discover and write about all the tech happenings in Cleveland, and Northeast Ohio, for the Plain Dealer has been one of the truly inspiring and defining moments in my career.

“This week I am sharing a few final, fleeting thoughts on the people, places and buzz surrounding Cleveland’s tech scene.

“Cool Interviews. I have interviewed hundreds of people regarding their passions, companies, technology and inspirations. My biggest frustration, especially in the early days of the column, was to get entrepreneurs to disclose the full amount of their investment received and at what valuation. On the coasts, it is a badge of honor to talk through such numbers, but in Cleveland there was always a reticence about such topics. Luckily, this has slowly changed over the years.”

Read more here.

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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