Categories: OLD Media Moves

Sidel, senior special writer for WSJ, leaving at end of the month

Robin Sidel

Robin Sidel, a senior special writer at The Wall Street Journal, is leaving the paper at the end of the month via the paper’s buyout offer.

Her last day is Jan. 31. Sidel has been covering banks and credit cards as well as financial cybersecurity and has been at The Journal since 2001.

In an email to Talking Biz News, Sidel said:

During my time at the WSJ and stints at Reuters and a Gannett paper in NJ, I have covered murders, heavyweight title fights, criminal trials, the energy industry during the Gulf War, some of the world’s biggest mergers and acquisitions, the financial crisis, the payments industry during a period of massive transformation, a rift among cranberry growers, a cauliflower shortage, and a bazillion other things.

It’s time to move on to Act Two of my career. I’m not quite sure what that is yet, but I’m hoping to use my writing skills, my research skills and my knowledge of assorted industries to do something fun and interesting.

Sidel was part of a team that won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2011 for breaking news coverage for the flash stock market crash.

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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