WSJ Pro Bankruptcy bureau chief Fitzgerald departs

Pat Fitzgerald

Pat Fitzgerald, the bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal Pro Bankruptcy, is leaving the organization.

FItzgerald managed a team of reporters and editors covering bankruptcy and corporate restructuring for The Journal. He also wrote about corporate bankruptcies and restructurings, with a particular emphasis on courtroom deals and deal-making involving hedge funds, private equity firms and other financial institutions.

He had been with Dow Jones and The Journal since 2014, first at the Newswires covering bankruptcy.

Fitzgerald was previously managing editor and editor at large at a consumer music magazine. He’s also a drummer.

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.