Kusisto named deputy law bureau chief at WSJ

Wall Street Journal reporter Laura Kusisto has been named deputy law bureau chief at the publication.

She has been a national legal affairs reporter and spearheaded abortion coverage. Kusisto also covered real estate for 10 years.

Previously, she served as a staff writer and intern at New York Observer. She has also worked as a freelance reporter at The Jerusalem Post.

Kusisto holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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.