WSJ hires Matsuda to cover bankruptcy

Akiko Matsuda

The Wall Street Journal has hired Akiko Matsuda as a reporter to cover bankruptcy and corporate restructuring.

Matsuda is a graduate of the 2019-2020 Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Business and Economics program at Columbia University, where she studied real estate finance, capital markets, corporate finance, financial accounting, and financial statement analysis, among other subjects.

Previously, she was a reporter for The Real Deal, covering commercial real estate. Prior to the Knight-Bagehot fellowship, she was a reporter for The Journal News, part of USA Today Network, where she reported on the business of real estate and development.

She was a gold award recipient in the 2018 National Association of Real Estate Editors journalism competition and was also an international reporting fellow at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She received master’s degrees in journalism and environmental science from Columbia University.

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.