WSJ promotes Ossola to host/producer of “What’s News”

Alex Ossola

The Wall Street Journal has promoted Alex Ossola to host/producer for “What’s News.”

Ossola has been an audio reporter and producer covering science and tech for The Journal’s “Future of Everything” podcast.

Before joining the Journal, Ossola ran podcasts and special projects at Quartz and was the managing editor at Futurism. She has written about science for publications such as The Atlantic, National Geographic, Popular Science, and many more.

She earned her bachelor’s degree from Hamilton College and her master’s from NYU’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP).

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.