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WSJ designer Pybas leaving paper

David Pybas, a designer at The Wall Street Journal for more than 20 years who was involved in at least four redesigns of the paper, is leaving.

Pybas posted on Facebook that Wednesday was his last day at the paper.

“I want to thank all the people out there who made it such a challenging, and great, place to work,” said Pybas.

Pybas was involved in the redesigns of the Europe and Asian editions Mario Garcia in 1999. He also did the redesign of the Money and Investing section for The Journal in 2002, and changed the European and Asian editions to tabloid with Garcia and James Reyman in 2005. He also redesigned WSJ with Garcia and Reyman in 2006.

More recently, Pybas was the Page One art director from 2006 to 2012, a time period that included the financial crisis, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Fukushima, and Obama’s election.

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.