NY Times hires WSJ’s Forsyth as DC investigations editor

Jennifer Forsyth

New York Times Washington bureau chief Elisabeth Bumiller and Washington enterprise editor Dick Stevenson sent out the following on Monday:

We’re thrilled to announce that Jennifer Forsyth, a longtime editor at The Wall Street Journal, will be joining The Times as investigations editor in Washington.
Jennifer spent more than 18 years at The Journal, most recently as deputy chief of investigations, a position she held from 2014 until last week. She worked with the investigations team and reporters across the newsroom to produce big projects, long-form narratives and quick hits. Her stories were part of The Journal’s exclusives on Trump’s hush money payments, which won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2019.
Stories that she edited on the Deepwater Horizon disaster, PG&E’s burning of California, the demise of Turkey’s democracy and nursing home failures during the pandemic were part of packages that were all Pulitzer finalists. The Deepwater Horizon and PG&E stories won Loeb awards.
Jennifer also ran The Journal’s investigation of the U.S. Indian Health Service, including a documentary with PBS’s Frontline, which won the Worth Bingham Award for Investigative Journalism and was a finalist for an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Documentary. She recently ran The Journal’s coverage of the toxic work environment at the FDIC.
Before joining The Journal’s investigative team, Jennifer was The Journal’s U.S. Editor and before that served as Texas bureau chief. She joined The Journal in 2005 as a reporter covering commercial real estate. Previously she was a staff reporter for The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Times of Shreveport and the Press-Republican in Plattsburgh, N.Y.
Jennifer received a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and has a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina-Asheville. She attended the Ruhr-Universitat in Bochum, Germany, on a Fulbright fellowship.
Please join us in welcoming Jennifer!

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.