WSJ hires Ellis to cover business schools

Lindsay Ellis

The Wall Street Journal has hired Chronicle of Higher Education reporter Lindsay Ellis to cover business schools.

She will start Jan. 31.

At the Chronicle, she covers research universities. Her stories have addressed change, cooperation with business, research security, and crisis management.

She came to The Chronicle after reporting on Texas higher-education issues for the Houston Chronicle, where she was part of a team that won an APME Grand Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for breaking-news coverage of Hurricane Harvey.

Ellis interned at The Journal and is a Dartmouth College graduate.

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.