AP Europe biz editor leaving for CNBC

Associated Press business editor Hal Ritter sent out the following announcement on Thursday:

Europe business editor Phill Tutt is leaving us to join CNBC.com as deputy managing editor, international. He’ll be staying in London and will oversee the website’s coverage of Europe and Asia.
Phill joined us while Europe’s debt crisis was raging and oversaw coverage of landmark decisions by the European Central Bank and European Union throughout 2012. His good ideas, strong editing and general steady hand during the tumult have been much appreciated.
Please join us in wishing him the best in his new job.

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.