Detroit News autos editor/deputy biz editor Derringer retires

Alan Derringer

Alan Derringer, the autos editor and deputy business editor at The Detroit News, is retiring.

He has been at the paper since 2003.

Derringer has been directing coverage of the autos industry for the last decade. Derringer previously was a features writer and features and entertainment editor at the Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel.

His immediate plan after surviving 40 years of daily newspapering is to fly-fish the bonefish flats in Key West, Florida.

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.