BBC Studios hires Rogow, formerly with WSJ

Geoffrey Rogow

BBC Studios announced Friday the hiring of Geoffrey Rogow as executive editor.

In this new role, Rogow will guide day-to-day output of BBC.com and the app, leading a global team of editors, writers, and producers to further strengthen BBC’s global digital offer.

He will begin on Feb. 23 and will be based in New York.

Rogow previously was at The Wall Street Journal before leaving near the end of 2025. Most recently, he was former deputy coverage chief for Life & Work at The Journal in New York. He helped lead our reporting on personal technology, personal finance, health and wellness, travel and consumer, and careers.Prior to his role on the Life & Work team, Rogow was the Journal’s investing editor, driving coverage of hedge funds, asset managers, pensions, insurance, tax and Berkshire Hathaway.

Before that, Rogow was a reporter for the Journal and Dow Jones for more than a decade, covering everything from high-frequency trading to natural disasters. He was a markets correspondent for much of the lead-up to and fallout from the 2008 financial crisis.

He also spent several years in Sydney, Australia, as a regional economics reporter for the Journal.

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.