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Thurm leaving Wall Street Journal

Scott Thurm

Scott Thurm, senior deputy technology editor at The Wall Street Journal, is among those leaving the newspaper this week via its recent buyout offer.

Thurm’s last day is Friday. He has been at The Journal since May 1998 in its San Francisco bureau.

“I’m exploring many options but have no immediate plans,” said Thurm in a message to Talking Biz News.

He became senior deputy tech editor in 2013.  He had been a senior editor since 2010, and was part of the team that produced the Journal’s What They Know project on digital privacy. Previously, he was chief of the Journal’s Management bureau, supervising a bi-coastal group of reporters in New York and San Francisco.

Before joining The Journal, Thurm spent eight years as a reporter the San Jose Mercury News and five years as a reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal and Louisville Times. He also worked for three years at  the Bethlehem Globe-Times.

He has a degree in math and political science from Tufts University.

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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