WSJ hires Business Insider’s Cook as deputy investigations editor

John Cook

The Wall Street Journal has hired Business Insider executive editor John Cook as its deputy editor for investigations.

He has been at Business Insider since 2019. Most recently, he was overseeing investigations, politics, features and defense coverage.

Cook has been a reporter and an editor for more than 25 years, serving as executive editor of Gawker Media, editor-in-chief of The Intercept, and founder of Gizmodo Media Group’s investigations team, the Special Projects Desk.

He has written or worked for The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Columbia Journalism Review, The Los Angeles Times, and many other outlets.

He also taught magazine writing at Northwestern University’s Medill 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.