Al-Muslim joins WSJ audio/podcast team as producer

Aisha Al-Muslim

Wall Street Journal staffer Aisha al-Muslim has joined the paper’s audio and podcast team as a development producer.

She previously was part of the talent and recruiting team and had overseen the interns.

She previously had been a reporter on the WSJ Pro Bankruptcy team, and she previously was a spot news reporter on the real-time news desk. Before joining the Journal in 2017, Aisha was a business reporter and town reporter at Newsday, where she was a 2014 Pulitzer Prize finalist for a series on police misconduct. She previously served as editor of the Spanish-language community newspaper, El Correo de Queens, and was a reporter for its sister newspaper, the Queens Courier.

She holds a master’s degree in journalism with a concentration in urban studies from CUNY and completed her undergraduate degree at Lehman College, where she majored in multilingual journalism and minored in Italian and Black studies.

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.