WSJ names Serota to deputy head of digital reporting

Lydia Serota

Lydia Serota has been promoted to deputy head of digital reporting at The Wall Street Journal.

Serota will also continue her role as director of newsroom product.

She previously was the Journal’s digital platforms editor, overseeing the presentation of journalism across apps and web. Prior to that, she worked on the Finance team as stocks editor, in the London Hub editing breaking news, and on the night shift of WSJ.com.

Serota joined the Journal in 2007 after working as a news editor at Yahoo.

She is a graduate of the University of California-Berkeley.

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.