Marfil among the WSJ layoffs in DC

Jude Marfil, newsroom operations manager for The Wall Street Journal in its Washington office, was among the layoffs last week.

Marfil started in the Washington bureau in August 2011, running the day-to-day operations. She was instrumental in her assistance in the resettlement of more than 100 Afghan colleagues and families into Canada and the U.S.; the standing up of a Dow Jones news bureau at the Democratic and Republican conventions since 2012; the reconstruction of the DC office space in 2013; and the bureau’s business continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

She was a journalist at the Manila Standard in the Philippines and reported in the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands.

She attended law school in Manila and earned a master’s degree in journalism at the Harvard School of Continuing Education.

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.