WSJ hires Best as senior supervising producer

Izzy Best

The Wall Street Journal has hired Izzy Best as senior supervising producer for news and specials.

She previously was a senior producer managing CNN+ editorial teams. Best was also a showrunner and executive producer at HuffPost.

Best was also a producer on “The Today Show” and a strategic content partnerships producer for MSNBC. She spent two years at CNBC as a segment producer and social media editor for “On the Money.”

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Buffalo State University, an MBA from Fordham University and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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.