WSJ Pro hires McElhaney for bankruptcy team

Alicia McElhaney

Alicia McElhaney has been hired by The Wall Street Journal to be a reporter on its Pro bankruptcy team.

She has been at Institutional Investor for the past seven years, also writing the Essential Allocator newsletter. While there, she completed a nine-month-long investigation into the world’s largest asset manager that revealed a pattern of sexism, racism, and sexual harassment that led to an internal investigation

McElhaney previously wrote stock stories for TheStreet and auction stories for The Deal. She also contributed to weekly columns and newsletters for The Deal and wrote copy that appears alongside videos on TheStreet’s website.

McElhaney is a University of Maryland graduate.

While in college, she interned at TheStreet as a Dow Jones News Fund business reporting intern.

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.