WSJ reporter Paul departing for new opportunity

Deanna Paul

Wall Street Journal reporter Deanna Paul is leaving the newspaper for a new opportunity.

Deanna has been reporting on New York courts and law enforcement. She previously covered national and breaking news for The Washington Post and was part of the newspaper’s team that was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting, revealing the vast number of unsolved homicides in America’s major cities.

Before joining the Post, Deanna spent six years as a New York City prosecutor.

She graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from Fordham University. She also holds a master’s degree from Columbia 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.