Cooney retiring from Reuters after 37 years

Peter Cooney

Reuters desk editor Peter Cooney is retiring after 37 years at the news organization.

“Grateful for all my former colleagues and looking forward to exploring the joys of retirement,” he wrote on Twitter.

He has been a desk editor since 1998. He previously was the deputy Canada and Toronto bureau chief.

He was also the chief Texas correspondent and a correspondent based in Philadelphia.

Cooney was a reporter for the St. Catharines Standard for three years.

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.