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WSJ Pro editor Zabkova departs for McKinsey & Co.

Jana Zabkova

Jana Zabkova, a senior publishing editor at The Wall Street Journal, has left to become a senior editor for financial services at consulting firm McKinsey & Co.

She had been at The Journal for nearly 20 years.

Most recently, Zabkova was working for WSJ Pro as a senior publishing editor after a stint on the sixth floor publishing desk.

She was previously deputy editor of WSJ Pro Financial Regulation, helping oversee a team of seven reporters and bureau and editing their stories for both the Journal and the Pro product. Before that she was on the U.S. news desk for four years, most of that time spent as night editor.

Earlier, Zabkova worked for the Journal in London and Brussels.

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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