WSJ hires Severns for enterprise team

Maggie Severns

The Wall Street Journal has hired Maggie Severns as a reporter on its Washington enterprise team.

Severns is currently a reporter for the Albritton Journalism Institute’s NOTUS Report.

She spent more than a decade diving into the behind-the-scenes forces that shape politics as a reporter for Politico and the news startup Grid.

Severns has reported investigations and long-form stories about the biggest events in recent history, including the 2016 and 2020 elections, the “Me Too” scandals that rocked the country in 2017, the Trump presidency, and the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Before she became a journalist, Severns worked as a researcher and a high school teacher in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. She graduated from Dartmouth College.

Severns has been published in publications including The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Time, and Slate.

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.