NY bureau chief Petrecca leaving USA Today

Laura Petrecca

Laura Petrecca, the current New York bureau chief and special projects editor for USA Today, is leaving the paper after 12 years.

In an note to friends, Petrecca said she was starting a media consultancy and freelance writing business. Her last day is July 6.

Petrecca was previously the Money section editor at USA Today. In that role, she oversaw day-to-day operations and set long-term strategy for USA Today’s business section and managed nearly two dozen business journalists who work across the U.S.

She was also a business reporter for the paper.

Before joining USA Today, Petrecca was Sunday business editor at the New York Post and also worked five years at Advertising Age as its New York deputy bureau chief.

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.