WSJ hires White as senior platform editor

Everic White

The Wall Street Journal has hired Everic White as a senior platform editor.

He helps run the Journal’s homepage, apps and alerts.

White previously was with Forbes as deputy social media editor and at Bloomberg “Quicktake” as social media editor. He also worked as a social media specialist for CNBC and as a web producer for Politico.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Drexel University and a master’s degree from CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.

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.