Much-admired editor Dobbyn leaving Reuters

Tim Dobbyn, a much-admired editor on the Washington desk of Reuters, is leaving the news agency.

He’s another journalist who has accepted the company’s buyout offer to leave.

Dobbyn is a member of the companies editing desk, working from Washington D.C., with a focus on regulatory stories such as banking rules, antitrust matters, drug approvals and communications policy.

He also once covered transportation matters, from TWA800 to the Firestone tire failures in 1997-2001

After training as an agricultural economist at Sydney University, Dobbyn found a job at Australian Associated Press in 1980 and never regreted entering journalism. He has been with Reuters since 1987 and in Washington since 1989.

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.