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Swasy leaving Dow Jones Newswires to become ME in Wilmington

Alecia Swasy, assistant managing editor of Dow Jones Newswires, is headed to The News Journal in Wilmington, Del., according to an internal e-mail distributed Thursday morning.

As of Jan. 7, sheâ€™ll be managing editor, overseeing a staff of about 140. In an e-mail, she told Talking Biz News: “I’m thrilled to be joining such a terrific team of journalists at the News Journal.”

Swasy previously worked at the The Wall Street Journal, St. Petersburg Times and the Virginian Pilot.

At the Virginian Pilot, she was deputy managing editor. Previously, Swasy was assistant managing editor for business at the Times, where she had also served as business editor. In addition, she has worked as a writer for both the Pittsburgh and Atlanta bureaus of The Wall Street Journal and was editor of The Daily Collegian at Penn State University.

She also wrote “Changing Focus: Kodak and the Battle to Save a Great American Company” and “Soap Opera: The Inside Story about Procter & Gamble.”

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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terry mutchler says:
January 4, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Before trading my press pass for a law license, I once worked for Swasy in a land far far away.......you'll need the following tools to be a success under her command: integrity, grit, willing to trade copy for chocolate; also a supply of masking tape and a rolling chair (to be explained by Swasy herself) and a great sense of humor.....Congratulations to The News Journal -- you won't find a better, more honorable journalist. --Terry Mutchler, Illinois Public Access Counselor, Assistant Attorney General