Newsletter editor Gonzalez among the WSJ layoffs

Miguel Gonzalez

Miguel Gonzalez, who edited the Wall Street Journal’s Politics & Policy newsletter, was among the layoffs in the Washington bureau.

Prior to that, he was a news editor on the politics team in Washington. Gonzalez worked for the Journal in Hong Kong for more than a decade, where he was transportation editor and senior editor overseeing the Asian Journal print edition.

He was also a copy editor on the overseas copy desk in New York.

He joined the Journal in 1998 after graduating from Georgetown University. He was managing editor of The Hoya, the student newspaper.

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.