Accounting reporter Rapoport has left WSJ

Michael Rapoport

Michael Rapoport, a reporter at the Wall Street Journal who covered accounting, has left the paper.

His last day was Friday.

Rapoport had been at the Journal since 2010, and at Dow Jones in general since 1993.

In a farewell email to his colleagues, he wrote:

“Thank you for your friendship, your skill and your commitment to our craft. You are some of the most talented journalists it’s ever been my privilege to know, and I am proud and honored to have worked with and among you.
“I hope our paths cross in the future.”

He wrote about a wide variety of issues related to accounting, including the accounting industry, accounting and auditing rules and regulation, and accounting fraud.

Before coming to the Journal, he wrote the “In the Money” column for Dow Jones Newswires, focusing on delving beneath the surface of financial statements and market developments to explore companies’ true financial condition.

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.