WSJ names Diamond its talent editor

Jared Diamond

The Wall Street Journal has named Jared Diamond its talent editor.

Diamond has been covering major league baseball for the publication since 2011.

He is also an adjunct instructor at Manhattan College. His first book, “Swing Kings: The Inside Story of Baseball’s Home Run Revolution,” was published in March 2020 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins.

Diamond is a Syracuse University graduate.

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.