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Bureau chief Thompson departs WSJ

Adam Thompson

Adam Thompson, travel and entertainment bureau chief in the Life & Work group at The Wall Street Journal, is leaving the publication due to the recent restructuring.

Thompson previously was a news editor for the Personal Journal section, a position he’s held since February 2013. In that role, he edited staff and interns, and developed freelance writers on coverage of careers and management, coronavirus, travel, tech, fitness, and cars. He also co-coordinated visual presentations, special features and promotion of online and print stories.

Before that role, Thompson was online sports editor for The Journal for five years. And he covered sports media and marketing from August 2006 to January 2008.

He previously worked at the Denver Post and the Ames (Iowa) Tribune as a sports writer.

Thompson holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.

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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