WSJ host and producer Fertoli departs

Annmarie Fertoli

Annmarie Fertoli, a host and senior producer for The Wall Street Journal’s “What’s News PM” podcast, has left after more than six years at the publication.

Fertoli previously was an associate producer at WNYC, working with the afternoon news team to produce “All Things Considered.”

Before joining the station in 2010, she worked as a news anchor and reporter for WFUV at her alma mater, Fordham University. She’s also worked for community newspapers in Queens and on Long Island.

Fertoli has also won awards for her work from the Society of Professional Journalists and Public Radio News Directors, Inc., for her news anchoring and for her documentary, “The Beauty of Madness.”

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.