Fidler retires from Wall Street Journal

Stephen Fidler

Stephen Fidler, bureau chief at large at The Wall Street Journal in London, has retired from the newspaper.

From 2017 to 2021, he was U.K. and Brexit editor, leading coverage of the U.K.’s breakup with the European Union, as well as politics and economics in the U.K. and Ireland. From 2009 to 2017, he was the Journal’s Brussels editor, heading coverage of the EU and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Before joining the Journal in London in March 2009, Fidler spent 22 years with the Financial Times in senior roles, including international capital markets editor, Latin America editor, defense and security editor, and U.S. diplomatic editor. In the latter role, he was based in Washington.

He spent almost a decade as a correspondent for Reuters in London, New York and the Middle East. His first job in journalism was with a group of English newspapers in his native Lincolnshire.

He holds a degree in economics from London University and is a visiting professor in the Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences at Canterbury Christ Church 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.