WSJ hires Heeb to cover consumer finance and banking

Gina Heeb

The Wall Street Journal has hired Gina Heeb as a reporter covering consumer finance and banking.

She has been working as a contract reporter for Bloomberg Industry Group and as a stringer for the New York Times.

Heeb previously worked as a breaking news reporter for Forbes and as a reporter for Business Insider, where she covered financial markets and fiscal and monetary policy.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

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.