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Worcester biz reporter Eckelbecker leaving for college job

Lisa Eckelbecker

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.

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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