WSJ AME for operations Ortega departs

Kate Ortega

Kate Ortega, the assistant managing editor for operations at The Wall Street Journal, has left the publication after more than 24 years.

In an email to the staff, Ortega wrote, “I enjoyed every single messy, shouty, beautiful minute of it, and every single (messy, shouty, beautiful) one of you has made a difference in my life. I hope you know that I would do it again in a heartbeat. I will miss you all so very much.”

She has been in the AME role since December 2017.

Ortega started as an intern on the overseas copy desk, editing for the Asian and European editions while based in New York, and then joined WSJ.com in the fall of 1999 as a news reader.

In early 2002, she became a news writer producing news roundups on earnings, stock market coverage, and breaking corporate and tech news. In 2005, she became an assistant news editor for WSJ.com overseeing interactive graphics.

In 2014, she became day editor for the paper, responsible for print and digital publishing planning.

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.