Hagerty retires from WSJ after 45 years

James R. (Bob) Hagerty, who joined The Wall Street Journal in 1978, has retired from the newspaper.

He most recently was based in Pittsburgh and wrote obituaries and other feature stories.

Over the past four decades, he also has worked as a reporter, editor and bureau chief for The Journal and the International Herald Tribune in Hong Kong, London, Brussels, Paris, Atlanta and New York.

He served as managing editor of The Wall Street Journal’s Asian edition (1994-1998) and London bureau chief of The Journal (2000-2003).

Hagerty holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of North Dakota.

He is the author of “The Fateful History of Fannie Mae,” published by History Press in 2012, and “Yours Truly,” published by Kensington’s Citadel Press imprint, a book on how to tell life stories.

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.