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Seeley out at WSJ amid newsroom cuts

John Seeley has been let go from his job at The Wall Street Journal, where he was founding editor of the paper’s metro section, Greater New York, reports Joe Pompeo of Capital New York.

Pompeo writes, “One insider speculated the paper is making ‘strategic trims to free up money for hires’ as it heads into a new fiscal year on July 1.

“A Journal spokesperson said the paper has been ‘evaluating many areas of the newsroom’ in recent weeks. ‘As a result we will be eliminating certain positions.’

“In 2009, Seeley was hired to launch Greater New York as part of parent-company News Corp’s plans to transform the Journal into more of a general interest read that would take on The New York Times in its own backyard.

“For awhile, the section was seen as an also-ran, but it has gained traction over the past couple of years thanks to its coverage of blockbuster stories like Hurricane Sandy and Bridgegate.”

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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.