McBride leaves Reuters

Sarah McBride

Sarah McBride, a venture capital reporter at Reuters in its San Francisco bureau, has left the organization after five years for another, undisclosed job.

She had been with Reuters since May 2011. She also worked briefly for NPR’s “Planet Money.”

Before that, McBride spent nearly 14 years with The Wall Street Journal. From January 2004 to January 2010, she worked in the Los Angeles bureau, covering subjects ranging from California issues to digital entertainment to the radio business. She broke several big stories, including that the RIAA had decided to halt its lawsuit campaign.

From 1998 to 2004, she worked in the Hong Kong bureau in a variety of positions, including covering Asian stocks and writing the Asian Wall Street Journal’s “Heard on the Street” column. She started at the Journal as an intern in the Washington bureau in 1996.

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.