Jalopnik editor in chief George is leaving

Patrick George

Patrick George, the editor in chief of auto industry site Jalopnik, is leaving the publication next week.

“This decision was entirely mine, and though it was an incredibly difficult one to make, I’m leaving for a new opportunity I’m very excited about,” he wrote on Twitter.

He became editor of Jalopnik in 2015. He joined the site in 2012 as a writer and then became associate editor and managing editor.

George previously spent six years at the Austin American-Statesman, where he covered crime and courts.

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.