WSJ taps Choi to be Wall Street news editor

Candice Choi

Candice Choi has been promoted to Wall Street news editor at The Wall Street Journal, reporting to Dave Benoit and Cara Lombardo.

Previously, Choi was a markets editor at The Journal, which she joined in early 2023.

She previously was at CNBC editing business and consumer news stories. Choi has been at the Associated Press for 17 years. She was also a longtime food industry reporter, personal finance reporter, and business reporter.

She spent 2017-18 as a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan.

Choi holds a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers 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.