Longtime WSJ staffer Cimilluca departs

Dana Cimilluca

Dana Cimilluca, who had been Wall Street bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal, has left for a new opportunity.

He was responsible for the Journal’s coverage of banks, investment firms and deals.

Recently, Cimilluca held the post of deals editor. He has been with the Journal for more than 16 years, joining as a lead writer for the “Deal Journal” deals blog. He was then named European M&A reporter, and served as deputy deals editor.

Prior to joining the Journal in 2007, Cimilluca worked for seven years at Bloomberg. There, he held the posts of telecom reporter and M&A reporter.

Cimilluca has a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College-Hartford and an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.

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.