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WSJ says goodbye to Alan Murray

Earlier this month, Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor Alan Murray announced he was leaving the paper to become president of the Pew Research Center.

On Monday afternoon, managing editor Robert Thomson toasted his farewell in the newsroom.

Murray was also the executive editor of The Journal’s online operations.

(Photo courtesy of Journal’s public relations staff.)

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.