Mani departing Reuters for graduate school

Sriram Mani

Reuters correspondent Sriram Mani is leaving the news agency to attend the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Mani has been in the Mumbai bureau for the last two years, covering deals, intersecting with tech.

Before that, he was a senior correspondent at moneycontrol.com, a business publication in India.

He was also a deals reporter, covering startups, venture capital and trends in private equity and mergers and acquisitions for HT MINT, a business publication in India. There, he has also worked as a senior correspondent.

Mani graduated from the University of Mumbai and a post-graduate student from the Asian College Of Journalism Bloomberg course.

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.