Washington Post taps Peiser to cover retail

Jaclyn Peiser

The Washington Post has named Jaclyn Peiser as a business reporter covering retail.

“I’m so excited to dive into this crucial beat and chronicle how the economy is impacting everyday consumers,” she wrote on Twitter.

Peiser has been a reporter on the Morning Mix team. She joined The Post in 2020 after almost five years at the New York Times, where she was a news assistant and reporter covering the media industry.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in American studies and communications and media studies from Goucher College and a master’s degree in journalism 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.