WSJ hires Henderson to cover financial markets

Bob Henderson

The Wall Street Journal has hired Bob Henderson as a reporter covering financial markets.

Henderson has been a freelance journalist for the past seven years, focusing primarily on science and finance.

He previously worked at Barclays Capital as head of index, hybrids and exotics trading and at JPMorgan Chase as managing editor of commodity exotics trading, among other positions.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in electric engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master’s in electrical engineering from the University of South California. He also has a master’s and a doctorate in physics from the University of Rochester.

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.