WSJ hires James to cover private equity

Rod James has been hired by The Wall Street Journal to cover private equity for WSJ Pro.

He spent more than five years with Private Equity International, first in London and later in New York, leading coverage of the North American market.

He was also a capital markets reporter with EMEA Finance and editor with the Latin America economic and political risk team at IHS.

James is a graduate of the University of York.

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.