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Chicago desk editor says goodbye to Reuters

James Marshall, a desk editor at the Reuters office in Chicago, sent out the following email to his colleagues on Tuesday:

It was a lovely Kansas City spring day in 1984 when I met Chicago Bureau Chief Felix Sergio at a restaurant on The Plaza to be interviewed for the job of Reuters’ K.C. correspondent. I was braced for a grilling when Felix raised a glass of white wine and said, “James. Take the job. You won’t regret it.”
It was my last, and favorite, job interview ever. And Felix was right, I never regretted joining forces with The Baron. Nor do I regret the leaving: I’m ready for a break!
Farewell to all my Reuters friends and colleagues near and far, and a special thank you to all the wonderful activists who joined me in carrying the banner of labor for the Newspaper Guild of New York. Now I must find my way in the terrifying realm of the mundane.

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.