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USA Today biz/tech news staff losing two in layoffs

USA Today MoneyUSA Today MoneyUSA Today’s business and tech news staff is losing two reporters as part of the Gannett company-wide layoffs.

Those being cut are:

  • Roger Yu, who writes about economics and business policy for USA Today. He has previously covered media, technology and health care, and worked in Asia as a foreign correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires. He also worked as a health care reporter for the Dallas Morning News and as a tech reporter for the Seattle Times. Yu has an undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California and a master’s degree from George Washington University.
  • Jon Swartz, USA Today’s award-winning technology reporter and Pulitzer Prize nominee, who covers Silicon Valley trends, social media and profiles CEOs. A high-tech journalist since 1987, Swartz has written for Forbes, The (London) Independent, London Times, San Francisco Chronicle and New Orleans Times-Picayune. He has won numerous journalism awards and is a two-time finalist for the Loebs, the Pulitzers of business reporting. He has been nominated four times for the Pulitzer Prize. Swartz is co-author of “Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity.”

Both are considered valued members of the department.

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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