WSJ hires Hazarika as digital platform editor

Bharbi Hazarika

Bharbi Hazarika has been hired as a digital platform editor at The Wall Street Journal, responsible for editing and curating WSJ.com, the Journal’s mobile app and social platforms.

She started as an intern in 2023 with the on- and off-platform teams.

She previously worked at CNN as an editorial package producer. She interned at the Los Angeles Times and The Hindu in India. She was also part of the New York Times Student Journalism Institute’s 2021 cohort.

Hazarika was born and raised in Assam, India. She has a master’s degree in digital journalism and audience development from New York 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.