Elliott named head of Dow Jones Risk & Research communities

April 27, 2022. (photo by Gabe Palacio)

Nick Elliott (photo by Gabe Palacio)

Nick Elliott has been appointed as head of communities, Dow Jones Risk & Research, moving from his previous role as head of professional products innovation & strategy at The Wall Street Journal.

In this new role, he will lead the development of a community for chief compliance officers and explore communities for adjacent corporate roles within Risk & Research.

Elliott founded WSJ Pro’s cybersecurity newsletter, its cybersecurity and sustainability events and managed research teams producing premium analysis and proprietary data. Previously he was the founding editor of WSJ Risk & Compliance and launched the Journal’s long-running series of risk & compliance events.

He held previous roles as managing editor of Dow Jones Private Markets, managing editor of commodities and futures at Dow Jones Newswires, European capital markets editor and as a reporter covering European bonds and monetary policy.

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.