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WSJ names Jeffers director of newsroom data and AI

Tess Jeffers

Tess Jeffers has been named director of newsroom data and artificial intelligence at The Wall Street Journal.

She has been The Journal’s director of audience analytics, leveraging content and readership data to help the Journal reach and engage new audiences. Tess leads a team of data scientists and data analysts responsible for content, product and audience insights.

Prior to joining the Journal, Jeffers was a data science manager at Known, a media and marketing consulting firm where she focused on audience forecasting and data strategy for media clients.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Michigan State University and a PhD in quantitative and computational biology from Princeton University.

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.

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