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Tech editor, tech reporter laid off at Newsweek

The technology editor and a tech reporter at Newsweek were among those laid off by the magazine on Friday.

The layoffs come a day after layoffs at sister publication International Business Times cut its business and tech news staff.

Tech editor Grant Burningham worked as the front page news editor at Yahoo News and at The New York Times as a home page producer before joining Newsweek. He started in radio, working for KUER, an NPR station on the campus of the University of Utah.

Burningham had been at the magazine since October 2015.

Tech reporter Seung Y. Lee had also been at the magazine since October 2015. He report daily for Newsweek’s website on technology, ranging from cybersecurity, startups and privacy, and San Francisco and California issues.

Lee wrote one magazine piece on the FAA’s attempt at regulating hobby drones and its legality.

He had graduated from Cal-Berkeley in 2014.

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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