WSJ social editor Cromwell joins LinkedIn as engagement editor

Taylor Cromwell, a social editor at The Wall Street Journal, has been hired by LinkedIn as an engagement editor.

Cromwell is a writer and editor with a focus on multimedia storytelling. For the past three years she has worked at The Journal to grow audience across the books and opinion sections as well as produce digital packages. She has an eye for engagement and a knack for understanding current and emerging social media platforms. Prior to The Journal, her work has appeared in Bloomberg News, Yahoo and more.

Cromwell is interested in innovation in all its forms and will be working with the LinkedIn news team to boost their audience engagement efforts.

She graduated from The University of Georgia with bachelor degrees in digital and broadcast journalism and international affairs.

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.