WSJ hires Bienaime as audio producer

Pierre Bienaime

The Wall Street Journal has hired Pierre Bienaime as an audio producer in New York on the p.m. edition of What’s News.

His first experience with journalism involved reviewing video games and interviewing their creators.

Bienaime grew up in the Bay Area and interned at his hometown paper, the Palo Alto Weekly. He’s a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz and of the Columbia Journalism School, where he focused on radio, and has since produced audio for Slate, Digiday, Bustle, Deutsche Welle and PRX.

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.