WSJ hires Ball as senior political correspondent

Molly Ball

Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker sent out the following:

Molly Ball is joining The Wall Street Journal as senior political correspondent. Molly will bring her distinctive voice and finely observed reporting to analysis pieces and political features from Washington and around the country.
Molly is joining the Journal from Time where she was the national political correspondent. In six years at Time, she wrote more than 30 cover stories; authored Pelosi, a bestselling biography; and received several national honors for her reporting, including the Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress and the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency.
Molly previously covered politics for The Atlantic, Politico and the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Molly will report to Politics Editor Ben Pershing and is based in Washington.

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.