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Sloan leaves Newsweek for Fortune

Allan Sloan, previously Newsweek’s Wall Street editor, is leaving the magazine to become senior editor at large for Fortune magazine, according to a release. He will start with Fortune on July 1.

Sloan is a six-time winner of the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award, business journalism’s highest honor, and has also won numerous awards and honors during his 35-year business journalism career. In 2001, he received both the Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award for business and financial journalism, and the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

In addition to his Loeb and Hancock awards, Sloan’s honors include being named regularly to lists of the nation’s most-influential and most-respected business journalists. He was named an alumnus of the year in 1999 by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Prior to his twelve-year run at Newsweek, Sloan was a columnist at Newsday and also held positions at Forbes and Money, among other titles. His business journalism career began with the Charlotte Observer in 1969.

He currently contributes to Public Radio International’s “Marketplace,” whose “Sloan Sessions” are broadcast Monday mornings, and frequently appears as a commentator on the PBS television program, “Nightly Business Report.”

Sloan received an M.S. from the Columbia Journalism School and a B.A. from Brooklyn College. A native of Brooklyn, Sloan currently resides in New Jersey with his wife.

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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