Tweh named WSJ’s Chicago bureau chief

Bowdeya Tweh

Bowdeya Tweh has been promoted to Chicago bureau chief at the Wall Street Journal, reporting to Jamie Heller.

Previously, Tweh was a deputy chief in the corporate news bureau in New York. He has worked as an editor in the technology bureau and led reporters on Dow Jones Newswires’s spot news team.

Prior to the Journal, he has also worked at the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Times of Northwest Indiana, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Detroit Free Press, Crain’s Detroit Business and Automotive News.

He has covered the U.S. steel industry, real estate, local government, and myriad other topics as a reporter. As an editor, he has steered coverage on a range of companies including Procter & Gamble and GameStop.

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.