OLD Media Moves

Logistics reporter Smith departing WSJ

Jennifer Smith

Wall Street Journal reporter Jennifer Smith is leaving the newspaper after more than a decade.

She covered logistics, supply chain and the distribution networks that keep the economy moving. Her work includes front-page stories on shipping bottlenecks and supply-chain upheaval during the pandemic, stories about the rise of warehouse robots and autonomous trucks and coverage of how e-commerce is reshaping the logistics and retail sectors.

Smith has also written about drivers who cook in their truck cabs and the herculean distribution push behind the annual Girl Scout cookie sale.

She previously wrote about New York cultural institutions, law firms and corporate law. Before joining the Journal in 2011, Smith was a reporter at Newsday, where she won awards for her coverage of breaking news, the environment and politics.

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.

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