Flaherty of Reuters joining Lipin’s new firm

Michael Flaherty

Reuters journalist Michael Flaherty is joining the new public relations firm Gladstone Place Partners started by former Wall Street Journal reporter Steve Lipin.

Flaherty will be a senior vice president in the new firm.

Flaherty most recently led Reuters’ activist shareholder and corporate governance coverage out of New York. In his 14 years at Reuters, Flaherty also covered the Federal Reserve and ran Reuters’ Asia financial news desk out of Hong Kong.

“I’m incredibly proud of the strong team my colleagues and I have built at Gladstone Place – designed from the ground-up to be a partner of choice for companies as they weigh critical strategic priorities and navigate this environment,” said Lipin in a statement.

Gladstone plans to focus on financial communications, corporate reputation and strategic positioning, issues management and corporate governance communications.

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.