WSJ hires Bloomberg’s Wainer for “Heard on the Street” column

David Wainer

The Wall Street Journal has hired Bloomberg Opinion columnist David Wainer to write for its “Heard on the Street” column about health care.

He has been covering the business of entertainment and telecom as well as broader business topics for the past few months at Bloomberg Opinion.

Previously, Wainer wrote about U.S. foreign policy, the United Nations, and climate diplomacy for Bloomberg.com and Businessweek magazine. He was the Elizabeth Neuffer Gold Medal Recipient in 2019 for best print journalism at the United Nations.

He previously was Tel Aviv deputy bureau chief, a health care reporter, and an emerging markets reporter at Bloomberg.

Wainer is a graduate of Boston University.

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.