Taylor named features editor at WSJ

Candace Taylor

Residential real estate reporter Candace Taylor has been named a features editor at The Wall Street Journal.

She joined the paper in 2013.

Taylor joined the paper from The Real Deal, where she was deputy managing editor. Before that, she was a senior reporter for several years, routinely breaking news and landing scoops on big real-estate deals, as well as writing in-depth feature and investigative stories, including a look at the behind-the-scenes tumult at a new condo building and a special series on real-estate crime and corruption.

At the Journal, she was the lead reporter on the Private Properties column.

She also worked at the New York Sun and the New Haven Register. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College 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.