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Zimmerman leaves Wall Street Journal

Ann Zimmerman, a longtime Wall Street Journal reporter who had recently worked out of the Dallas bureau, has left the newspaper.

Zimmerman confirmed her depature on Twitter. She had a byline in the paper as recently as Dec. 6. She recently covered the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Zimmerman covered Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas for The Journal. She previously wrote about retail, including Wal-Mart, Best Buy and other big box stores.

She previously had worked for the now-defunct Dallas Times Herald from 1981 to 1991. She also worked for the Dallas Observer. Zimmerman is a 1977 graduate of Lehigh University, where she was editor in chief of the yearbook.

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.