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WSJ “Counting House” columnist DeCarbo to depart

Beth DeCarbo

Beth DeCarbo, the “Counting House” columnist at The Wall Street Journal, is leaving the paper next month.

Her last day is April 30.

“Working for the Journal has been an amazing experience, but now I’m ready to try something new,” she said.

She has been at the Journal for 13 years, starting out as an editor on Personal Journal. In 2012, she became deputy editor for the launch of the Journal’s the Mansion section, which covers luxury real estate. The “Counting House” column explores the financial aspects of homeownership.

She has covered megamillion-dollar home sales, international real-estate markets and home-design trends and their effect on resale values.

Previously, she was the features editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and deputy business editor at Newsday.

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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