Klayman retiring as Reuters Detroit bureau chief

Ben Klayman

Ben Klayman, the Detroit bureau chief and North American transportation editor for Reuters, is retiring at the end of the year.

He has been responsible for a team of about 10 reporters covering everything from autos to aerospace to airlines to outer space.

Klayman got his start in journalism professionally in 1990 on a small weekly in Maryland, and was the business editor of the Youngstown Vindicator and then a business reporter for the Toledo Blade until he joined Reuters in 1998.

He has covered a broad range of industries in my time, including automotive, manufacturing, housing, telecommunications, sports business and general news.

Klayman is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis.

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.