WSJ reporter Rabouin among those laid off

Dion Rabouin

Wall Street Journal reporter Dion Rabouin was among those laid off by the publication this week.

“And honestly, I’m so happy and grateful,” he wrote on Twitter. “I love that I got to work at the Wall Street Journal. I got to write front-page news stories, host a podcast, create a Youtube channel and make a rap video.”

He is multiplatform writing about finance for The Wall Street Journal since 2021. He has interviewed sitting presidents from around the world as well as dozens of central bank governors and finance ministers.

His work has appeared in financial publications including CNBC, Reuters, Yahoo Finance and others, as well as on ESPN, The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Root, Time and Vox.

Rabouin is a graduate of Ithaca College.

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.