WSJ hires Wertheim from NY Times for styles desk

Bonnie Wertheim

The Wall Street Journal has hired Bonnie Wertheim to be deputy editor in its new styles news desk.

She will start next week.

Wertheim has been at The New York Times for the past eight years, most recently as a senior staff editor for news stories and features on technology and internet culture.

She also worked as a staff editor on the Styles section of the Times.

Wertheim is a graduate of Hamilton College, where she was editor in chief of the student newspaper.

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.