NY Times hires WSJ’s Scheck

Justin Scheck

The New York Times has hired Wall Street Journal reporter Justin Scheck for its international investigations team.

In his 15 years with the Journal, Scheck has been based in London, New York and most recently San Francisco, where he was part of the paper’s Polk-award-winning coverage of Facebook.

Scheck was part of a team of Journal reporters that exposed the inner workings of Amazon’s third-party marketplace. The multimedia investigation tracked Amazon goods to dozens of dangerous Bangladeshi factories that had been shunned by the world’s leading retailers. The project was a Pulitzer finalist for investigative reporting and received an Emmy nomination.

Before joining the Journal in 2007, he covered federal courts and plaintiff lawyers for a legal newspaper.

A graduate of Bates College, he is the co-author of “Blood and Oil,” a book about Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.

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.