American Banker DC bureau chief Adler is departing

Joe Adler

Joe Adler, the Washington bureau chief of American Banker, is leaving the publication after 16 years.

“Worked with an incredible group of journalists and colleagues along the way,” he wrote on Twitter. “I’ll always be grateful for the experience. More on my next move soon.”

Adler has been with the Washington bureau of American Banker since 2006, writing on a variety of topics about the federal government’s financial services policy.

Before joining American Banker, he worked at newspapers in New England, beginning his career as a sportswriter in Massachusetts.

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.