Sacramento Bee names new business editor

The Sacramento Bee has named Mary Lynne Vellinga, a former Sacramento Bee business, political and development reporter, as its new business editor.

Vellinga rejoins the Bee to replace former business editor, Wayne Davis.
Vellinga originally joined The Bee in 1991 as a business writer and moved to The Bee's Capitol Bureau in 1995.

Since 1999 she reported on regional growth and land development issues and is co-author of a 1990 book published by Barron's on potential profits and pitfalls of investing in low-priced stocks.
She will begin her post as editor July 6.

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OC Register biz reporter heads to Bloomberg

The OC Weekly reports that John Gittelsohn, a business reporter at the Orange County Register, is leaving the paper for a job at Bloomberg News in New York City.
The report says that Gittelsohn will cover national real estate topics for Bloomberg. His last day at the paper will be June 26.
Gittelsohn joined the Register as a education reporter, but is more recently known for his standout business coverage in South California.
From the story:

John came to the Register from the Sun Sentinel in Florida to cover K-12 education. He later reported OC's Asian communities, traveling to Vietnam and China on reporting trips, state government, including covering Arnold for two years in our Sacramento bureau, and, most recently, reporting on Orange County's rich and infamous, such as indicted Broadcom billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III.