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Thomson Reuters media president leaving company

Chris Ahearn, the president of media at Thomson Reuters, announced Friday via Twitter that he was leaving the company.

The news follows the resignation of his boss, Thomson Reuters markets division CEO Devin Wenig, on Thursday.

Ahearn is head of media in the markets division of Thomson Reuters. He is responsible for the overall business performance of the media business and oversees all business, product development and sales operations.

Prior to his appointment as president of Reuters Media in 2002, Ahearn was the executive vice president who founded the Reuters Knowledge product line.

Prior to joining Reuters in 2001, he worked as an investment banker at J.P. Morgan & Credit Suisse First Boston. Ahearn sits on the board of The Kitchen, a non-profit arts organization in New York.

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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