WSJ’s Day returning to the Associated Press

Chad Day

Wall Street Journal data reporter Chad Day is returning to the Associated Press to be chief elections analyst.

Day is the lead data reporter on The Wall Street Journal’s national politics team where he covers presidential campaigns, elections, demographics and money in politics. He also builds newsroom tools that help reporters explore data to better understand the changing American electorate.

He joined the Journal from the investigative team at the Associated Press, where he covered special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and the 2016 presidential campaign.

He has also previously worked at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the Kansas City Star.

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.