Social media editor Cervantes among the WSJ layofffs

Nelly Ontiveros Cervantes

Nelly M. Ontiveros Cervantes, a social media editor The Wall Street Journal, was among the layoffs at the publication earlier this week.

She has been at The Journal for the past year. She served as the editor in chief of NSM Today, which is run by journalism major students at the University of Central Florida’s Nicholson School of Communication.

She interned at the Orlando Sentinel, The Wall Street Journal and the Orlando Weekly.

Cervantes has a B.A. in journalism from the University of Central Florida.

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.