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WSJ Radio anchor Deal has new show

Gordon Deal, who hosted “The Wall Street Journal This Morning” radio program before it closed at the end of 2014, has a new show that is being syndicated to the same stations that previously ran his Journal program.

“This Morning, America’s First News, with Gordon Deal” is now being shopped to radio stations by Compass Radio Networks. It is a talk show that airs from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. Eastern time.

Before taking the helm at “The Wall Street Journal This Morning,” which had 225 affiliates, in November 2005, Deal worked at both WINS-AM and WCBS-AM in New York where he honed his writing skills and developed his distinctive on-air reporting style. He also served as a New York City bureau chief for Metro Networks where his reports aired on WOR-AM and WABC-AM. Deal began his career in radio as a play-by-play sports announcer for Rutgers University, his alma mater.

Deal was one of the radio journalists who lost their jobs last year when Dow Jones & Co. decided to close its radio operations. Ten of those journalists were picked up by Bloomberg Radio, Talking Biz News reported on Thursday.

Also, Deal hosted the small business podcast “The Wall Street Journal on Small Business.”

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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