Bond Buyer reporter Barnett is retiring

Chip Barnett

Chip Barnett, a senior reporter at The Bond Buyer, is retiring.

He has been with the publication for the past decade, primarily covering New York and Florida.

Barnett has almost 50 years of professional experience. He started his career at the Gannett Newspapers in Westchester County, N.Y., working his way up from back-shop compositor to senior news editor.

Barnett later worked for Thomson Reuters in Manhattan, covering state and local government finance as a reporter and later executive editor for TM3.com and as editor in charge of municipal finance for Reuters News.

Later, he was the editor of Municipal Finance Today at SourceMedia. Barnett has also worked for DebtWire/Municipals and has written about commercial real estate in South Florida and the Midwest for both The Real Deal and Globe Street.

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.