Peterson moves to food and ag policy beat at WSJ

Wall Street Journal reporter Kristina Peterson is moving to the food and agriculture policy beat at the newspaper.

She has been at The Journal and Dow Jones since 2009 and most recently was covering congress. She also covered the Federal Reserve for a year.

Peterson previously worked at the Palo Alto Daily News.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a master’s degree from Columbia University.

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.