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The Tennessean’s Ms. Cheap columnist to retire after 45 years

Mary Hance

Mary Hance, who writes the Ms. Cheap column for The Tennessean in Nashville, is retiring from the paper on Jan. 4, 2021.

She was also previously the assistant business editor.

A Tennessean story states, “Her Ms. Cheap column got its start at the Nashville Banner in March 1994, when she realized readers enjoyed her stories about retail and hospitality bargains and asked her editors if she could write a column focused on thrifty ideas. Since then, she has embraced writing about cheap things to do and the creative ways people save money.

“When The Banner closed in 1998, Hance moved to The Tennessean. Her readers loved helping Ms. Cheap — from her Cheapest of the Cheap contest to her T-shirt drive for the homeless — there was no end to the tips and donations she got.

“Hance’s 12th annual Penny Drive for Second Harvest Food Bank is under way to fight hunger in our region. During its first 11 years, Hance through the Penny Drive raised more than $715,000.”

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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