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Atlanta biz columnist Unger is retiring

Henry Unger, the assignment editor and columnist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s business section, announced Wednesday that he plans to retire from the paper this summer.

Unger, who will be 64 next month, told Talking Biz News that his last day will be June 30. He eventually plans to move to Miami and travel some.

“I’ve been working for about 42 years,” said Unger. “People here are great and have been kind enough to put up with me for 25 years.”

He writes the “5 Questions for the Boss” leadership column that appears Sunday in the business section and on the paper’s websites. Unger has worked at the AJC for the past 25 years in a variety of reporting and editing positions, including assistant business editor and deputy business editor.

As a reporter, he has covered several major companies, including Coca-Cola and Turner Broadcasting. As an editor, he led the newspaper’s coverage of the G-8 Summit on Sea Island in 2004 and has supervised teams of business reporters for many years.

Before that, Unger worked at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, which closed in November 1989. He also worked in Los Angeles at City News Service and the Los Angeles Daily Journal, and in California at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune and Orange County Register. He has a degree in economics from Queens College.

Unger is a native of New York City.

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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