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Scott, deputy European biz editor, leaving NY Times

New York Times business editor Dean Murphy sent out the following announcement:

Patrick Scott, who has been the deputy European business editor in London for the past two years, will be leaving The Times this summer.

Patrick is moving to Cairo, where his wife Susan has taken a job at the Modern English School Cairo.

Patrick joined The Times in 2011 in New York as finance editor, and served briefly as the BizDay weekend editor before becoming our first London-based deputy European business editor. He came to The Times after 20 years at The Charlotte Observer.

In London, Patrick has played important roles in the integration of the New York Times and the International New York Times, and in making our digital business and economics report comprehensive and competitive globally.

“By helping invent the morning business editor job in London, and by coming up with many procedures to make us digitally quick and efficient, he has created a great foundation we’ll continue to build on,” said Tim Race, business editor for Europe. “And we’ll miss his energy, talent and collegiality.”

On a recent scouting trip to Cairo, Patrick said he was captivated by the city and the many people he met. “It was astonishing, harrowing and confounding all at once,” he said. His plans include exploring Egypt and the region, writing about his adventures, learning how to scuba dive and speak Arabic, and finding “ways to help those who need it.”

He and Susan leave for Cairo in August. Please join me in wishing them well.

Scott’s last day is Aug. 13.

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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