Hall, WSJ’s professional news editor, departing after 10 years

Glenn Hall

Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker sent out the following on Friday:

Dear All,
Glenn Hall, our professional news editor, is leaving the Wall Street Journal after ten years. Glenn has had a number of jobs in the newsroom including editor-in-chief of MarketWatch, US news editor and global editor of Dow Jones Newswires.
I want to thank Glenn for his great contribution to the Wall Street Journal and wish him the very best.
We are opening applications for the professional news editor job for internal candidates only.
You can apply here.
We are also looking for a LA bureau chief. Again this job is open to internal candidates only. You can apply here.
Many thanks,
Emma

Hall is currently the president of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.

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.