Western named weekend news editor at WSJ

Lora Western has been named weekend news editor at The Wall Street Journal.

Since 2019, she has been deputy publishing chief at the publication.

Western previously was the inaugural Washington news editor in New York. She joined Dow Jones as an editor at The Wall Street Journal Asia in Hong Kong, serving as deputy managing editor there before moving to New York, where she ran the foreign news desk. She managed the New York-based news desk that produced the overseas editions, then joined the U.S. desk when it was created in 2008.

In 2011 she jumped to digital full time, working on the WSJ.com hub team, before joining the markets desk as digital point person and then serving as the digital partner for corporate coverage.

Western began her career covering the electronics factories of Asia for a Hong Kong-based trade magazine. She is a graduate of Northwestern 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.