Sullivan ends “Wealth Matters” column at NY Times

Paul Sullivan

Paul Sullivan is ending writing the “Wealth Matters” at the New York Times after 13 years.

Sullivan writes “My initial goal for the column was to use lessons from the very wealthy to help people of more modest means. Over time, it often veered into an anthropological look at how the wealthy lived just so differently than everyone else.

“I was never good at baseball, but I’ve always loved talking to people, and like a serious baseball fan, I am good at keeping stats. I’ve kept a record of all the columns and articles I’ve written for The Times — I’m weird like that.

“On average, I spoke to eight individuals per column, which puts me at about 4,864 people. Add in the other 152 articles I’ve written for The Times during the past 13 years and the total is over 6,000 people, according to my estimate.”

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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.