WSJ names Jamerson its East Coast bureau chief

Josh Jamerson

The Wall Street Journal has named Josh Jamerson its East Coast bureau chief.

He will oversee a team of reporters from New England to South Florida and help lead the coverage of national affairs issues across the country.

Jamerson has been a national politics reporter based in The Journal’s Washington bureau. He is covering the 2022 midterm elections and the future of the U.S. political parties, spending much of his time on the campaign trail reporting from key battleground states and congressional districts.

He previously covered the 2020 presidential election, including the Democratic primary. His campaign-trail reporting won a Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.

In 2021, Jamerson was a member of the Journal’s “The Tulsa Race Massacre | 100 Years Later” project, which included his reporting from Tulsa, Okla., on Black American’s struggle to create a thriving business community. The series was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.

He previously covered Congress and the 2018 midterm elections. He first joined the Journal in 2016 to cover breaking corporate news from New York.

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.