Reuters reporter Whitesides set to retire

John Whitesides

Longtime Reuters journalist John L. Whitesides is retiring.

He will leave the news service at the end of the month.

Whitesides joined Reuters in Hong Kong in 1990 on the Asia desk after 10 years in newspapers at the Omaha World-Herald and Hartford Courant. He also worked briefly for a newspaper in Hong Kong.

He later moved to Washington with Reuters as an editor and was then a correspondent covering Congress, politics and national affairs. He covered everything from the Clinton impeachment to Obamacare.

Whitesides is a University of Kansas graduate.

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.