WSJ hires Hart as a reporter

Connor Hart

The Wall Street Journal has hired Connor Hart as a reporter.

Hart currently leads St. Louis Inno, the St. Louis Business Journal’s brand covering startups, innovation and the entrepreneurial ecosystem in St. Louis. He also has been reporting on the sports business beat.

He joined the Business Journal in 2022. Hart was awarded a SABEW Best in Business Award in 2021 for a series of stories that examined the effects supply chain snarls and inflation had on local businesses in his college town of Columbia, South Carolina.

Prior to joining the Business Journal, he interned at The Wall Street Journal covering breaking news. He has a degree in journalism from the University of South Carolina.

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.