WSJ promotes Jamerson to deputy political editor

Joshua Jamerson

Joshua Jamerson has been promoted to deputy political editor in the Washington bureau.

He will report to politics editor Ben Pershing.

Previously, Jamerson was the East Coast bureau chief for U.S. news. He also served as a national politics reporter based in the Washington Bureau and covered 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.

In 2021, Josh was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer for Explanatory Reporting as part of the team that produced the Journal’s “The Tulsa Race Massacre | 100 Years Later” project.

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.