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Stern leaving Wall Street Journal

Gabriella Stern, editor of strategic initiatives and a deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal, is leaving the business newspaper at the end of the year.

Her new job is with a nonprofit organization. She had been with The Journal for nearly 25 years.

Journal editor Gerard Baker, who toasted her in the newsroom on Monday, wrote the following in a note to the staff:

But more important than any of these central roles, Gabby has been an inspirational colleague and mentor to many Dow Jones staff over the years. She has taken time to make herself available to guide and encourage some of our most talented individuals. And in the last few years she has been a dear colleague to me and other members of the senior editing team. Her robust intelligence, tenacity and self-effacement have been invaluable as we have navigated some exciting but turbulent times. No one has worked harder to make us a successful news organization.
In the next phase of her life, Gabby will not only embrace and conquer new professional challenges, but she will also get to spend a little more time with her husband, Jeffrey and to shepherd their two beloved children through the thickets of their education.

Please join me in wishing Gabby the very very best in her new endeavors.

After graduating from Yale with a degree in English, Stern joined the Omaha World-Herald in 1982, earning the distinction of being the first to report that actress Debra Winger was living with then-Gov. Bob Kerrey in the governor’s mansion in Lincoln, Neb., in 1984.

Stern joined the Journal’s Pittsburgh bureau in 1991, becoming the Detroit bureau’s deputy bureau chief three years later. After a few years in New York as a news editor, she joined Dow Jones Newswires where she was senior editor for Europe, the Middle East and Africa and then senior editor for Asia-Pacific.

Upon her return to New York, she spent three years as senior editor on the new “Hub” and as managing editor of DJFX Trader.

As a deputy managing editor of the Journal’s Digital Network from 2012 to 2014, she worked on verticals, email newsletters, redesign, and WSJ Startup of the Year. She was named editor of strategic initiatives in February 2014.

She also has a master’s degree in political science from Yale.

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.