WSJ reporter Schwartz departing for new opportunity

Felicia Schwartz

Wall Street Journal health and pharmaceuticals reporter Felicia Schwartz is leaving the news organization for a new opportunity.

Her last day is Friday.

“It has been a tremendous privilege to work with such incredible colleagues and I will miss them,” she wrote on Twitter.

She has been covering that beat since July 2021. She previously was The Journal’s Israel and Palestinian Territories correspondent, based in Tel Aviv. She previously covered foreign affairs and the U.S. State Department out of the Journal’s bureau in Washington, D.C.

She has also worked at CNN in New York and is a graduate of Dartmouth 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.