WSJ’s Bykowicz joining Baltimore Banner

Julie Bykowicz

Former Wall Street Journal reporter Julie Bykowicz, laid off last month, has been hired by the Baltimore Banner to be its business and enterprise editor.

She will start next month and help expand its business news coverage and edit a team of reporters.

Bykowicz wrote for The Journal about money and influence in Washington. She has covered campaign finance, presidential and congressional elections, the White House and Congress, and national policy issues since 2011.

She joined the Journal in 2017, after working at the Associated Press and Bloomberg News. Before that, she spent a decade as a crime reporter in Baltimore for the Baltimore Sun.

Bykowicz is a University of Missouri graduate.

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.