Corrigan returns to LA Times

John Corrigan

John Corrigan, who left The Wall Street Journal a year ago, is joining the Los Angeles Times as deputy environmental, health and science editor.

He had been the Washington business editor for The Journal since 2018.

Corrigan was the Journal’s China business editor from 2016 to 2018. He joined the Journal after a long run at the Los Angeles Times, including stints as business editor and as assistant managing editor for arts and entertainment. He was project editor of “The Wal-Mart Effect,” winner of the 2004 Pulitzer in National Reporting, and he edited a series of stories that probed Toyota’s sudden acceleration problem, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer in 2010 and won a Loeb.

Corrigan worked as a reporter and editor at several other Southern California newspapers, including the Los Angeles Daily News and the Los Angeles Business Journal.

He’s served as a board member of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, and for six years was a preliminary judge for the Loebs.

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.