Bhattacharya becomes speed and trending desk reporter for WSJ

Suryatapa Bhattacharya

Suryatapa Bhattacharya has moved to the Wall Street Journal’s Los Angeles bureau and become a speed and trending desk reporter.

She previously spent six years in The Journal’s Tokyo bureau and two years in its New Delhi bureau.

Bhattacharya previously worked as a reporter at The National News in Abu Dhabi and India, and as a reporter for The Toronto Star. She was also an associate editor at Faze Media in Toronto.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Carleton 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.