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USA Today lays off two from Money desk

USA Today has laid off two staffers from its Money desk, slightly more than a year after it laid off two other staffers from the same desk.

Kris Kinkade, who had been at the paper since January 2011 and was most recently assistant Money editor, was one of the two who left earlier this week.

Kinkade helped plan the print Money section of USA Today daily and assisted the Money editor with general planning for the department.

He also organized and edited the Personal Finance section of the paper and helped manage and edit online content for the Money section on the USA Today website, including some content creation. He was also charged with serving as USA Today‘s liaison for several Money section content partners.

Jae Yang, the Money snapshots editor, was also let go this week. Snapshots were graphics that included facts and figures about money and business.

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.