WSJ hires Felton to cover auto industry

Ryan Felton

The Wall Street Journal has hired Ryan Felton to cover the auto industry.

He has been an investigative reporter on the Special Projects team at Consumer Reports, where he has written about bottled water, electric scooters, and safety recalls in Uber and Lyft vehicles.

Felton previously was at auto industry site Jalopnik, where he was a transportation and technology reporter. His writing and reporting have appeared in The Guardian, The Awl, FiveThirtyEight, Pacific Standard, The Trace, and Al Jazeera America. He was also a freelancer for Reuters in Michigan.

Felton is a graduate of Wayne State 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.