Longtime antitrust reporter Bartz departing Reuters

Diane Bartz

Diane Bartz, who has been at Reuters since 1999, is leaving the news organization.

She has been covering antitrust news for Reuters since 2007. From 1999 to 2007, she edited articles from Latin America, Canada and the United States for Reuters’ general news clients.

Bartz worked at Agence France-Presse from 1991 to 1999, writing and editing copy in English on U.S. issues, and translated stories from Spanish and French on Latin America and Canada.

She covered war (Bosnia), elections (Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua), a rebel hostage-taking (Peru), hurricanes (Miami and New Orleans), and an AIDS summit (Canada). Other overseas reporting experience includes Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Cuba, Grenada, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Nigeria and Panama.

Her freelance clients have included the Washington Post, London Independent and the Houston Chronicle.

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.