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Longtime Atlanta biz journalist Thurston is retiring

Scott Thurston

Scott Thurston, a longtime business journalist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, is retiring at the end of the month.

Thurston has been with the paper since 1981.

He is currently the local business/economy team coach. Thurston has also covered transportation companies such as Delta Air Lines and been the paper’s assistant business editor. He also worked as the paper’s Sunday travel editor.

Thurston originally worked for the paper’s suburban newspapers in DeKalb County, an Atlanta suburb. He also had a stint as the paper’s military reporter.

He is a graduate of Auburn University, where he was editor of the student newspaper.

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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