Weil returns to WSJ as reporter on finance desk

Jonathan Weil

Longtime business journalist Jonathan Weil has returned to The Wall Street Journal as a reporter on its finance desk.

Weil left Bloomberg Opinion in 2014 and then worked for Kynikos Associates and CPMG Inc.

Weil has been credited by Columbia Journalism Review, Barron’s and The New Yorker magazine, among others, as the first reporter to challenge Enron Corp’s accounting practices during the Internet bubble, for his Sept. 20, 2000, Wall Street Journal article, “Energy Traders Cite Gains, But Some Math Is Missing”

Weil joined Bloomberg as a columnist in 2007, and his columns on finance and accounting won Best in the Business awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in 2009 and 2010.

Weil was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal from 1997 to 2006, and before that at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock.

He grew up in Hollywood, Fla., and has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a law degree from Southern Methodist 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.