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Reuters correspondent Siddiqui is departing

Zeba Siddiqui

Zeba Siddiqui, a Reuters correspondent, is leaving the news organization after 13 years to attend graduate school.

She most recently has been covering cybersecurity from the San Francisco bureau.

Siddiqui was part of a Reuters team that won the 2019 Pultizer Prize in International Reporting and several other awards for coverage of the Rohingya crisis. She was based extensively at the Rohingya refugee camps at Bangladesh’s border with Myanmar between 2017 and 2018 for that reporting.

Her work in that series revealed the elite Myanmar army units behind the genocidal campaign against the Rohingya, profiled a young Rohingya woman’s extraordinary escape from the violence, and Myanmar authorities’ moves that could make the purge of the Rohingya permanent. The profile was separately a finalist for a Society of Publishers in Asia award in the Excellence in Women’s Reporting category.

In her previous role as politics and general news correspondent for Reuters, Siddiqui also covered Bangladesh’s violent national election in 2018, India’s lockdown of Kashmir in 2019, deadly communal clashes in Delhi in 2020, and the devastating toll of the coronavirus pandemic in the country.

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.

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