Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Gruley to retire

Bryan Gruley

Bryan Gruley, a reporter at large for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek, is retiring.

“New passions and projects await,” he wrote on Twitter.

He has been with the news organization since September 2011, writing big features about everything from oil to hockey, from John Deere to Kim Dotcom, from yogurt to marijuana.

Gruley was previously the Chicago bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, where he worked for 25 years. He shared the Journal’s Pulitzer Price for coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Gruley is also a book author. His latest book is “Purgatory Bay,” which came out earlier this year. He also wrote the Starvation Lake trilogy — “Starvation Lake,” “The Hanging Tree” and “The Skeleton Box.” The debut book, “Starvation Lake,” was an Edgar finalist and won Anthony, Barry and Strand awards.”

He also worked for the Detroit News and Kalamazoo Gazette.

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.