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Obit writer leaving WSJ for Bloomberg

Stephen Miller, the obituary writer for The Wall Street Journal, is leaving the paper.

He will join Bloomberg News on April 28 to write obituaries.

“It was great working at the Journal,” said Miller in an email to Talking Biz News. “I’m looking forward to working with the obits team at Bloomberg News. Coming up on two decades in obits, I still find the form a fascinating challenge so it was great to find a new place to practice.”

In an email to the staff, Miller wrote:

“GoodBye! The Journal of Contemporary Obituaries” was a ‘zine and website I founded in 1996. It morphed into Remembrances, which in 2006 became the WSJ’s first regular obituary feature. Something like 1000 corpses later, it is time for another transition. I thank all the fine editors and writers I’ve worked with here.

Miller had been with the paper since 2007. Before that, he was the obituaries editor of the New York Sun for five years.

Miller has a degree from Oberlin College and also worked at Mizuho Capital Markets for six years.

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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