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Dougherty says goodbye to WSJ

Tech writer Conor Dougherty sent out the following message to his Wall Street Journal colleagues:

People tend to grumble when a goodbye email hits their inbox, but I happen to love them. There’s news, emotion and often a little surprise. Sometimes people say something crazy. That one guy wrote a poem. What’s not to like?

Goodbye emails also have contact information, and mine is conordougherty77@gmail.com.

Anyway. This is my last week at The Wall Street Journal. I started reading this newspaper on August 29, 2001. I know this because that day Gautam Naik had an A-Hed about a Finnish air guitar contest, and it’s not a stretch to say that my life can be divided into before and after that moment. When I finished the piece, I knew what I wanted to do. Three years later, I got the chance.

I’ve given a lot to this place since then, but not as much as you’ve given me. Among other things, you let me write three skateboarding A-Heds. More than that, you are my friends and family. I’m married to one of you. I was married by one of you. It’s been a dream come true, and I can’t ever thank you enough.

Until our paths cross again.

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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