Reuters editor departs suddenly

Reuters managing editor Paul Ingrassia sent out the following staff departure announcement on Monday:

Dear Colleagues
I am writing to inform you that effective immediately Michael Stott will be leaving the company. I will be taking over as EMEA Regional Editor on an interim basis, also effective immediately, while continuing my global role as Managing Editor.
I will be relying heavily on the talented team Michael has assembled over the past two years in EMEA. In particular, I’ll work very closely with our two EMEA Deputy Regional Editors, Janet McBride and Matthew Tostevin, to continue to build momentum during this interim period.
I would like to thank Michael, who joined Reuters in 1986 and has had a long and rich career at Reuters over much of the globe. It has included stints directing global top news and the domestic news services as well as running bureaus in Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States and Turkey. Most recently, as EMEA Regional Editor, Michael has built an impressive and award-winning team to cover the region. We all wish him well for the future.
Best regards,
Paul

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.