Leventhal departs WSJ for NY Times

Jamie Leventhal

New York Times video director Solana Pyne sent out the following on Thursday:

Jamie Leventhal joins The Times as a video journalist on the Daily Video Team in New York, and will produce video packages and livestreams, and edit videos for social media. Jamie comes to us from The Wall Street Journal, where she produced and edited videos covering a range of news topics, including business and technology. While at The Journal, she created and hosted a YouTube subchannel, which focused on engineering, supply chain and logistics.
Previously, Jamie worked as a video editor at Vice News, and as a digital video producer and science writer at “PBS NewsHour.” Her work has contributed to multiple award wins, including two Peabody awards. She’s originally from the Philly suburbs, and graduated from Northwestern 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.