Lisa Eckelbecker, a business reporter covering central Massachusetts at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, is leaving the paper for a job at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Her last day at the paper is Friday. Her job at the college is in research communications.
Eckelbecker has been at the paper for 30 years. She has written about companies in industries ranging from manufacturing to health care to biotechnology. She has also visited potato chip factories at midnight, interviewed holiday shoppers at dawn and donned protective gear to visit an animal research center.
She previously spent two years at the Omaha World-Herald as a copy editor.
