Mai-Duc among the WSJ layoffs

Christine Mai-Duc, a reporter covering state politics, housing and the economy from The Wall Street Journal’s Los Angeles bureau, was among the layoffs on Thursday.

Her stories highlight nation-leading policies and trends in the nation’s most populous state and largest economy, examine the causes and implications of the housing crisis, and provide vignettes of life on the West Coast.

Mai-Duc joined the Journal in 2019 from the Los Angeles Times. During her time there, she was a Gerald Loeb award finalist and was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the San Bernardino shooting.

She began her career as an intern in the Los Angeles Times’s Washington, D.C., bureau.

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.