WSJ expected to hire Washington Post’s Dawsey

The Wall Street Journal is expected to hire Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey, according to Oliver Darcy in his Status newsletter.

Darcy writes, “A spokesperson for The Journal didn’t respond to an inquiry, but Dawsey — who is currently on leave writing a book about the 2024 presidential campaign — will start at the Rupert Murdoch-owned broadsheet in February as a political investigations reporter, according to people familiar with the matter. While brass at The WaPo tried to dissuade Dawsey from departing, the star reporter had already made up his mind, I’m told. He is very unlikely to be the last out the door, either.”

Read more here. Dawsey previously worked for The Journal.

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.