Politics editor Pershing leaving WSJ

Ben Pershing

Ben Pershing, the politics editor of The Wall Street Journal, is leaving the news organization.

“It’s been a genuine pleasure to work with you,” he wrote in an email to colleagues. “I especially want to thank Tim, Josh and the entire politics team for your great journalism and your warmth and generosity as colleagues. I’m very proud of what we’ve done together.”

He previously served as editor of National Journal. Pershing served for six years as a staff writer at The Washington Post. He covered Congress for the national staff, anchoring a popular blog and a weekly column on Capitol Hill, and has covered high-profile Senate and governor races in Virginia.

He got his start in Washington with a decade at Roll Call, both as reporter and editor.

A Los Angeles native, he is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.

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.