Graff, WSJ’s justice and judiciary editor, among the layoffs

James Graff

James Graff, the justice and judiciary editor at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following on Thursday afternoon:

This is my last day at The Wall Street Journal, as it is for many others in the D.C. bureau. I started late here–just under 10 years ago–but from Day One it’s been an education in ethical, incisive, compelling journalism. I can’t begin to thank all the people I’ve loved working with, from the old world desk to the pub desk to the DC bureau. I owe a particular debt to my gifted and beloved reporters on the justice and judiciary team, from whom I’ve learned so much and with whom I’ve had an absolute blast.

Graff previously worked as executive editor of The Week and before that for Time, where he headed bureaus in Ottawa, Vienna (Central Europe coverage including the wars in Yugoslavia), Chicago, Brussels and Paris and was a senior editor in London.

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.