Dow Jones hires Hancock to cover antitrust in Europe

Edith Hancock

The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones have hired Edith Hancock to cover antitrust and competition issues in the European Union.

She has been at Politico covering competition, regulatory policy, the Inmarsat/Viasat merger and Facebook’s divestment of Giphy.

She was a M&A reporter at Mergermarket and reported for Solar Media’s websites PV Tech, Energy Storage News, Current and Solar Power Portal, and its trade journal PV Tech Power in London. She covered lifestyle for Business Insider UK, focused on travel, property, food and entertainment news globally.

She edited for City A.M. and interned at The Times, Sheffield Star and The Huffington Post.

Hancock has a M.A. in journalism and business and economics from Columbia 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.