Capital B hires WSJ’s Scott as audience development editor

Charity Scott

Capital B, a nonprofit news organization focused on Black-oriented news, has hired Wall Street Journal reporter Charity Scott to be its audience development editor.

Scott has been in the New York Corporate Bureau covering online shopping, including startups like StitchFix, RealReal and Everlane as well as secondhand marketplaces like DePop and Poshmark, and efforts by social media services to capture shopping dollars.

She previously was a senior editor on our social media team, and she completed the first WSJ Trust Fellowship.

She joined the Journal in 2012 and has worked as an editor on WSJ.com and our mobile apps.

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.