WSJ hires Jin to cover VC and startups

Berber Jin

The Wall Street Journal has hired The Information reporter Berber Jin to cover startups and venture capital.

He will start June 13.

He has been with The Information since March 2021 covering the intersection of finance and technology.

He had previously been at Business Insider since October 2020 as a startups/venture capital fellow. Jin also previously interned at Bloomberg News.

He is a graduate of Stanford University in history and economics, and worked at The Stanford Daily while in college.

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.