Longtime Newsday biz journalist Mason-Draffen is retiring

Carrie Mason-Draffen

Carrie Mason-Draffen, a longtime business journalist for Newsday, is retiring from the paper after nearly 35 years.

She has been at the paper since May 1984.

Mason-Draffen primarily wrote about local employment and workplace rights, but she also tackled any other local business stories she found interesting.

She wrote the “Help Wanted” column, which was syndicated nationally and answered employees’ and employers’ workplace questions.

She is also the author of “151 Quick Ideas to Deal with Difficult People,” a book that was published in 2007.

Mason-Draffen also taught journalism at Adelphi University.

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.