WSJ hires Eckert for autos team

Nora Eckert

The Wall Street Journal has hired Nora Eckert to be a reporter on its autos team.

She will be based in Detroit.

Eckert has been an investigative reporter for the Post-Bulletin in Rochester, Minnesota, for the past year. She was previously an elections reporter for the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.

She interned for the Journal and was part of the Pulitzer Prize-finalist team that reported on how COVID-19 swept through nursing homes. She dug into a robust investigation of a New Jersey veterans home that reporting showed had more deaths to coronavirus than any other in the nation. Eckert also interned for NPR and the Associated Press.

Eckert holds a master’s degree from the University of Maryland and a bachelor’s degree from St. Norbert College.

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.