WSJ hires Kornelis to write obituarties

Chris Kornelis

The Wall Street Journal has hired Chris Kornelis as an obituary reporter.

Kornelis has been a freelancer for the past decade, writing about TV, film, personal finance, business and technology — among other topics — for The Journal and The New York Times.

He has also written for many other publications, including Money and Entrepreneur. Kornelis is the author of “Rocking Fatherhood: The Dad-to-Be’s Guide to Staying Cool” (Da Capo/Lifelong Books, 2016).

Kornelis previously worked at Seattle Weekly. He’s a University of Idaho graduate.

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.