Seattle Times biz journalist LaViolette to retire

Suzanne LaViolette Credit: The Seattle Times

Suzanne LaViolette, the business news editor at the Seattle Times, is retiring later this month after 27 years with the paper.

Her last day is March 29.

“In my 27 years at The Seattle Times (March 1992 – March 2019) I’ve had the privilege of working with outstanding business editors — Steve Dunphy, Debbie Van Tassel, Rob Weisman, Becky Bisbee and Rami Grunbaum – and an amazing group of smart, hard-charging business reporters, backed up by talented desk editors and page designers,” said LaViolette in an email.

LaViolette worked at The Asian Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong for about six years before coming to Seattle.

Bisbee, who left the paper in 2016, called LaViolette a “real pro.”

“Suzy La Violette has been the hub of the Business department all these many years,” said Bisbee. “Nothing happened without her.”

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.