WSJ hires USA Today’s Gilbertson to be its travel columnist

The Wall Street Journal has hired USA Today senior consumer travel reporter Dawn Gilbertson to be its new travel columnist.

At USA Today, she writes about how to navigate airline fees, fares, refund policies and new routes and also cover and break travel news.

Prior to USA Today, she spent more than two decades as an award-winning airline and business reporter for the Arizona Republic, covering two major airline mergers and the rise of Southwest Airlines and creating the paper’s first consumer travel beat in 2010.

She is a graduate of Syracuse 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.