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WSJ reporter Bischof leaving for Newsweek

Jackie Bischof, a journalist with The Wall Street Journal since 2010, has resigned for a job at Newsweek.

Her last day at the Journal was Thursday. She starts as a digital editor at Newsweek on Sept. 22.

Bischof has degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Columbia University. She also freelanced for The New York Times, Wanted Magazine, Elle SA Magazine, The Committee to Protect Journalists, and The Citizen Newspaper

She first worked for The Journal in Africa. She was most recently a reporter and web producer for the Greater New York section, where she helped manage the section front, created slideshows and interactives, produced stories and wrote and produced a popular real estate feature called House of the Day.

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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