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Bull says goodbye to Reuters

Alister Bull, the Federal Reserve Board and economics reporter for Reuters, sent out the following goodbye message to his colleagues on Tuesday:

Today is my last day at Reuters. It has been an immense privilege to work for 23 years among the finest journalists on three continents. I will always be proud to have been a member of the Reuters tribe, and will cherish my memories of camaraderie on doorsteps all over the world.

London, Amsterdam, Johannesburg, Frankfurt and Washington. Each posting was fascinating and taught me a little more about what it meant to be a Reuters reporter, especially when working in southern Africa or difficult places like Iraq with our talented colleagues in pictures and television.

From breakfast with Nelson Mandela, to lunch with Ben Bernanke and flying around the world with Barack Obama on Air Force One, there was never a dull moment – putting aside some of those rain-swept Euro Group stakeouts. Sorry Brussels, but your weather sucks.

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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