Viswanatha named Washington enterprise editor at WSJ

Aruna Viswanatha

Aruna Viswanatha has been promoted to Washington enterprise editor.

She will report to Damian Paletta. Viswanatha has been a senior reporter in The Journal’s Washington bureau covering national security, the FBI and the Justice Department.

She has spent more than a decade covering federal law enforcement, including the FBI’s focus on China, the special counsel’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, and DOJ’s battles with big banks in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

Viswanatha joined the Journal in 2015 from Reuters. She went to college at Rutgers University in New Jersey and started out her career writing about the new suburbs in New Delhi and big law firms in New York.

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.