WSJ hires Toonkel as deputy media editor

Jessica Toonkel

The Wall Street Journal has hired Jessica Toonkel as its deputy media editor.

She will start Aug. 1.

Toonkel has been at The Information for the past four years as a media and telecom reporter in New York.

She previously spent seven years at Reuters, where she was the U.S. media correspondent from 2016 to 2018, breaking stories about media consolidation and about moves by Facebook and Amazon into digital media. Before the media beat, Jessica covered M&A and finance.

Before Reuters, she worked for Crain Communications, Institutional Investor and American Lawyer.

Toonkel graduated from Vassar College.

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.