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Apple reporter Wakabayashi leaving WSJ

Daisuke Wakabayashi

Daisuke Wakabayashi, who has covered Apple for the past three years at The Wall Street Journal, is leaving the paper.

On Twitter, he wrote, “It’s been a blast covering Apple! I hope to resurface in the not-so-distant future.”

Before covering Apple, Wakabayashi worked for the Journal in its Tokyo bureau,  covering everything from the restructuring at Japan’s struggling electronics firms, to Nintendo’s attempts to stay relevant in a changing industry, to billionaire entrepreneur Masayoshi Son’s audacious bid to crack the U.S. telecom market.

Wakabayashi joined the Journal in 2008 in Tokyo after starting his career in 1999 at Reuters, where he worked in Tokyo, Boston and Seattle. In Seattle, he covered Microsoft.

He is a graduate of the College of Holy Cross.

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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