WSJ names Lesova its evening news editor

Polya Lesova

Polya Lesova has been named evening news editor at The Wall Street Journal.

In that role, she ensures the Journal’s news offering is best-in-class and oversees the curation of digital platforms. She works closely with coverage and bureau chiefs as well as the publishing and platforms teams.

Lesova has worked at the Journal since 2014 in a variety of roles, including senior editor on the publishing desk and deputy editor for finance and markets coverage on the real-time desk.

Before that, she spent seven years at MarketWatch where her roles included deputy markets editor in New York, London bureau chief and markets reporter in Frankfurt.

She has an undergraduate degree in political science and journalism from the American University in Bulgaria and a graduate degree in journalism from New York 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.