Categories: OLD Media Moves

Transportation reporter joins union he covered

Peter Donohue, a former transportation reporter for the New York Daily News, is joining the subway workers union he previously covered before leaving the paper last month.

Dana Rubinstein of Capital New York writes, “‘He always gave the workers a fair shake, and never failed to reach out to the union to allow our voice to be heard,’ Transport Workers Union president John Samuelsen said in a statement. ‘Pete had other opportunities available to him, but he chose us, and we’re happy to have him aboard.’

“In February, Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman informed staff that he was considering selling the paper.

“In April, Capital reported that both Donohue and his colleague, Oren Yaniv, were leaving.

“T.W.U. Local 100 has roughly 40,000 members at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Citi Bike and elsewhere.”

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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.