Categories: OLD Media Moves

Free Press business columnist Walsh to retire

Tom Walsh, a longtime business columnist for the Detroit Free Press, plans to retire later this month, writes Bill Shea of Crain’s Detroit Business.

Shea writes, “The Chicago native has been with the paper since 1982, and will wrap up his career in later December.

“Walsh, 65, said his intention was to work two or three more years if this latest round of buyouts hadn’t been offered.

“‘I didn’t know if another one was ever going to come,’ he said Monday afternoon.

“Walsh announced his retirement plans earlier in the day on social media.

“‘It’s a great transition to whatever’s next,’ he said. ‘The way the buyout works, you just keep getting paid for a while not to come to work.'”

Read more here. Walsh had also been the Free Press business editor.

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.