Flores among the WSJ layoffs

Adolfo Flores

Adolfo Flores, a Texas-based U.S. News reporter for The Wall Street Journal, was among the layoffs last week.

Flores previously covered immigration and breaking news for BuzzFeed News where he wrote about asylum-seekers on both sides of the southern border and the U.S. immigration detention system. He was the first U.S. reporter on the ground to write about the 2018 caravan that drew international attention. He moved to the Texas border in 2019 to continue reporting and writing about the impact of immigration policies on migrants and asylum-seekers attempting to cross the border.

Previously, Flores covered public safety, courts, and breaking news for the Los Angeles Times, Pasadena Sun, and Pasadena Star-News. He reported on the 2014 Isla Vista mass shooting for the L.A. Times. The coverage was a Pulitzer finalist for breaking news.

He is a Los Angeles native, a Spanish speaker, and a graduate of Cal State Northridge.

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.