WSJ hires Williams as publishing editor

Annabelle Williams

The Wall Street Journal has hired Annabelle Williams to be a publishing editor.

She will start this week.

Williams is a 2020 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked at The Philadelphia Inquirer, New York magazine, The American Prospect and Business Insider. She has also written for The Washington Post.

She led Penn’s student magazine, 34th Street, and wrote a creative-writing honors thesis about vampires.

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.