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Danis, Northeast U.S. editor for WSJ, leaves paper

Kristen Danis, the Northeast U.S. editor for the Wall Street Journal, has left the paper for a job at the Marshall Project.

In an email to her colleagues, Danis wrote:

Today is my last day at the WSJ. I owe a debt of gratitude to too many people to list here, but I remain deeply honored and proud to have worked among all of you over the past four years.
Please stay in touch.

Danis was also deputy editor of the Greater New York section for the Journal. She was managing editor for news, assistant managing editor and deputy metro editor at the New York Daily News. She also worked as a reporter for the New York Post.

Danis is a Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumnus.

The Marshall Project is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization covering America’s criminal justice system.

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.