WSJ hires Timms as national legal affairs reporter

Mariah Timms

The Wall Street Journal has hired Mariah Timms as national legal affairs reporter.

Timms previously covered the intersection of the justice system and daily life for the Tennessean. She previously covered breaking news in Nashville and in Rutherford County for the Daily News Journal, which she joined in 2017.

Before that, she worked in various roles for The Daily Herald in Columbia.

Timms is a graduate of the American International University in London.

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.