WSJ hires Watts as director of visual storytelling

Ryan Watts

Ryan Watts has been hired by The Wall Street Journal as director of visual storytelling.

He will start next month and report to associate editor Taneth Evans.

Watts will work with coverage chiefs and our visual journalists across the newsroom to set an ambitious strategy for compelling, visually-led stories.

Watts started out in local newspapers before rising through the ranks at The Times of London where he led the combined data journalism and digital storytelling team.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Warwick and a master’s degree from City University of 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.