NYT media reporter Haughney taking buyout

Christine Haughney

Christine Haughney, who has recently covered the media industry for The New York Times, is leaving the paper via its buyout offer.

On Twitter, Haughney wrote, “After 8 years with @nytimes including nearly 3 years writing about my colleagues in the troubled newspaper industry, I am taking a buyout!”

She later posted, “Still deciding what I’m going to do after @nytimes. But I’m excited to figure it out!”

Haughney has been with the Times since 2006, and she has spent time on the media, metro and real estate desks. Before that, she was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered the commercial real estate industry.

She also worked at the Washington Business Journal, Crain’s New York Business and The Washington Post.

Haughney is a graduate of Wellesley College and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

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.