Bryan Gruley, the Chicago bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal, will be the fall semester’s Business Writer in Residence. He will be interacting with students and faculty from the Wisconsin School of Business and the UW-Madison Scholl of Journalism and Mass Communication, Nov. 10 through 13.

Gruley directs a group of reporters who write about agriculture, food companies, restaurants, airlines, manufacturing, health and the economy and culture of the great Midwest. Previously, he was a senior editor in the Journal’s Washington bureau, where he helped reporters in Washington and elsewhere wrote stories for Page One, and wrote some himself, on a wide variety of financial and non-financial subjects.

Gruely wrote one of the page-one stories on Sept. 11, 2001, that won the Journal a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news as well as the American Society of Newspaper Editor’s Jesse Laventhol prize for newswriting. His Nov. 25, 2003, story, “War Stories,” about a black Army lieutenant and the Holocaust victim he saved, was an alternate finalist in the Pulitzer feature-writing category.

Gruley joined the Journal in September 1995 as a reporter covering antitrust and telecommunications, and for two years managed a group of reporters who covered regulatory issues. Prior to that, he worked for 11 years as a reporter at The Detroit News, covering business, including the auto industry and the Detroit newspapers’ effort to get a joint operating agreement. His coverage of the latter resulted in a prize-winning book, “Paper Losses: A Modern Epic of Greed and Betrayal at America’s Two Largest Newspaper Companies” He is a 1979 graduate of the University of Notre Dame. He has won numerous awards for his journalism.

The Business Writer in Residence program is a joint effort by the Wisconsin School of Business, the School of Journalism and Mass Communications and University Communications to bring in nationally known business writers to interact with business and journalism students. The Business Writer in Residence program is funded by a grant from the UW Foundation.

Anyone interested in scheduling a meeting or an event with Gruley during his visit should contact PR Director Melissa Anderson mkanderson@bus.wisc.edu or Communications Director Lari Fanlund in Marketing Services.

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