WSJ hires Cushing as senior video journalist

Belle Cushing

The Wall Street Journal has hired Belle Cushing as a senior video journalist for enterprise video.

She has been a freelance investigative and story documentary producer.

Cushing has made documentaries, shorts, and news specials for platforms including HBO, Showtime, Hulu, The Marshall Project, and Vice. Her work has taken her to Latin America, Europe, North Africa, and across the U.S.

For several years, she worked as an international producer with Vice News making news documentaries on immigration, corruption, and criminal justice. Her work has been honored with five News and Documentary Emmy awards and five Emmy nominations, a Foreign Press Association award, a George Polk award, an Edward R. Murrow award, and a Front Page Award.

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.