Yazel, deputy editor of Personal Journal, leaving for Cosmopolitan

Emily Nelson, the editor of the Personal Journal section of The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following staff departure announcement on Thursday:

I have news that is exciting for Leslie and a loss for us. She has accepted the no. 2 job at Cosmopolitan magazine.

I’ll be brief because Cosmo may be announcing this soon and I wanted you all to hear the news first. There’s just no way to sum up here all the wonderful talents Leslie has brought to the section. We will miss working with her, and look forward to toasting her at greater length before she leaves.
Please join me in congratulating her on this exciting new step in her career.

Yazel has been with the Journal for the past four years. She was also arts editor at The Washington Post. Yazel is a University of Iowa graduate.

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.