Categories: OLD Media Moves

Dow Jones VP Ingrassia plans to leave company

Reuters is reporting that Paul Ingrassia, who was a candidate to become the next managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, plans to leave Dow Jones & Co. after the first of the year, making him the first executive to leave after the News Corp. deal to acquire the company.

Reuters reported, “‘I will be leaving probably after the first of the year,’ Ingrassia said in a brief phone interview. ‘There just didn’t seem to be an appropriate place for me in the company.’

“He also said he did not see ‘any role that really excited me’ at Dow Jones.

“Ingrassia, 57, said the decision was unrelated to Dow Jones’s agreement to sell itself to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. He would not say what he plans to do after leaving.”

Read more here. Ingrassia is vice president of news strategy and is a 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner. He also was once president of Dow Jones Newswires.

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.