WSJ hires FT’s Chaffin as senior special writer

Joshua Chaffin

The Wall Street Journal has hired Joshua Chaffin as a senior special writer covering national affairs.

Chaffin has been the New York correspondent for the Financial Times.

He previously worked for the FT in the United Kingdom, writing about the forces that contributed to the historic Brexit vote, and the ways in which they are re-shaping Britain.

Chaffin has previously written for the FT in New York, Washington and Brussels, and has covered key events for the paper — including the Enron scandal, the 2004 U.S. election, Hurricane Katrina and the Eurozone crisis.

He was honored by the British Press Association as part of the News Team Of The Year for his coverage of populism in Europe.

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.