Wordock joining WTOP as business reporter

John Wordock

WTOP in Washington has hired veteran journalist John Wordock as its next business reporter.

He will start Jan. 26.

Wordock is already a familiar voice to WTOP listeners. In the 2000s, he anchored market updates for the station while serving as managing editor of MarketWatch Radio.

During his tenure at MarketWatch, Wordock also delivered business reports for leading news stations across the country, including WBZ, WINS, WBBM, KRLD and KCBS.

“WTOP is setting the pace for the radio industry in our digital world,” Wordock said in a statement. “It’s a leader both in Washington and in the country. I look forward to joining its award-winning newsroom and evolving business reporting in the age of social video, YouTube, podcasts, and whatever comes next.”

Wordock was also executive producer of podcasts at The Wall Street Journal and a TV and radio reporter for Bloomberg News.

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.