Reuters reporter Finkle resigns

Jim Finkle, a correspondent in the Boston bureau of Reuters, has resigned.

In an email to the staff, Finkle writes:

I resigned yesterday to take a job running communications for a cybersecurity company.
I turned 50 in September, after spending more than 30 years in journalism, and decided in the subsequent months that this would be a good time to try something new.
It’s been a privilege to work at Reuters for these past 10 years. I am grateful for the friends I have made here. You have inspired me in many ways, pushing me to grow both professionally and personally.
I will continue to live in Medford, Massachusetts, and travel regularly to Orange County, California. Please stay in touch, particularly if you plan to visit the Boston area: jim@finkle.com.

Finkle covers cybersecurity, hacking and technology privacy issues. He’s been with Reuters since 2005. He previously covered technology, media and biotechnology for Broadcasting & Cable, the Orange County Register and Bloomberg News out Tokyo, Taipei, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Santa Ana, Calif.

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.