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McLean returning to Fortune to write online column

Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer sent out the following announcement to the staff on Monday:

More great news on Fortune 500 Day! I am delighted to tell you that Bethany McLean is coming back to Fortune as a columnist at the new Fortune.com.

It’s an auspicious day for a return, as we launch the new site and release the Fortune 500. Bethany of course was a most distinguished writer here for many years before she decamped to Vanity Fair to become a contributing editor there. She will continue in that role at VF.

I am thrilled that Bethany is back with us at Fortune.com. She’s an amazing journalist and really good people too.

McLean was one of the first journalists to question Enron’s accounting methods. She wrote “The Smartest Guys in the Room” about Enron with Fortune writer Peter Elkind. She also co-wrote “All the Devils are Here” with Joe Nocera.

McLean is a Williams College graduate.

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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