Rose named chief editor at Dow Jones Newswires in Americas

Josee Rose

Josée Rose

Josée Rose has been hired by The Wall Street Journal as chief executive Dow Jones Newswires, Americas in New York.

Se will start on March 18 and report to Chip Cummins.

Most recently Rose was an executive editor at Business Insider, which she joined in 2021.

Previously, Rose spent almost 20 years of experience at The Journal in New York and London. She was the elections editor, working across the Journal newsroom to coordinate all aspects of its 2020 coverage, before switching focus to COVID-19 vaccine coverage.

In her time at the Journal, she covered personal finance and financial advisors; worked on the real-time desk; been an assistant art director on Page One; recapped episodes of “Jersey Shore”; been a part-time late-night breaking-news sports editor; managed the WSJ.com homepage; and played a key role in the WSJ’s digital publishing efforts across multiple mediums.

Rose is a graduate of the College of New Jersey.

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.