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Triangle Business Journal managing editor resigns

Rebecca Troyer, the managing editor of the Triangle Business Journal, has resigned from the American City Business Journals paper.

Her last day will be April 8.

Troyer told Talking Biz News that her husband joined the faculty at North Carolina A&T University in January, heading up the landscape architecture program, and they recently moved to Greensboro, which is more than an hour away from Raleigh, where the Triangle Business Journal is located.

She joined the paper in August 2013 from the Daily Press in Newport News, Virginia. At the Daily Press, Troyer was responsible for the planning, writing and editing of the editorial page and the opinion content of its digital platforms.Troyer came to journalism after a 15-year career as a business attorney. She grew up in Raleigh, N.C., where the business newspaper is located, and attended the Indiana University School of Music and the IU School of Law in Bloomington, Ind.

She’s been a columnist, blogger, business reporter and editorial writer. Before coming to the Daily Press, she was on the editorial board at The Herald-Times in Bloomington, Ind. She also was an adjunct faculty member at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs, teaching an undergraduate course in Law and Public Policy.

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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