WSJ hires Passy as travel beat reporter

Jacob Passy

The Wall Street Journal has hired MarketWatch.com reporter Jacob Passy to cover the travel beat.

He has been with MarketWatch for the past five years.

Passy previously was a reporter with National Mortgage News covering breaking news in the residential mortgage industry. He has been with SourceMedia since 2015 and previously served as a breaking news reporter for American Banker.

His work has appeared in numerous publications, including CNBC, NBC News, Public Radio International’s The Takeaway, and the Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy blog.

He is a graduate of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and Tufts University, where he was features and new media editor for the Tufts Daily.

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.