McCune, ex Reuters, joins Associated Press

Greg McCune

Greg McCune, who left Reuters in December after 29 years at the news service, has joined the Associated Press in Chicago.

McCune is now editing stories from 14 states of the Midwest.

McCune was an editor in Chicago that in charge of the Reuters America service. He was among a number of long-time employees who left Reuters at the end of last year via buyout offers as the company aimed to cut costs.

McCune, who has degrees from Kansas State and George Washington University, also worked as a reporter for Reuters in Washington, London and Brussels. He was also the chief correspondent in Canada and the Washington news editor.

He is also a past president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

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.