WSJ hires Lukpat as a breaking news reporter

Alyssa Lukpat

The Wall Street Journal has hired Alyssa Lukpat as a breaking news reporter.

She is currently a member of the 2021-22 New York Times fellowship class.

Lukpat studied data journalism at Columbia Journalism School and journalism at Northeastern University.

She has worked for the Boston Globe and The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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.