Ag and food policy reporter Peterson among WSJ layoffs

Kristina Peterson

Kristina Peterson, who covered food and agriculture policy from The Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau, was among the layoffs.

She previously covered Congress and the Federal Reserve. Peterson has been at the Journal since 2009.

Peterson previously worked at the Palo Alto Daily News.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a master’s degree from Columbia University.

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.