WSJ’s DC coverage chief Beckett to become assistant editor

Paul Beckett

Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker sent out the following on Wednesday:

Dear all,
Paul Beckett, Washington Coverage Chief, will be moving on to a new role as Assistant Editor reporting directly to me, working full-time on our efforts to secure Evan’s release.
Paul has worked tirelessly lobbying for government action since we first knew Evan was missing in March. I am very grateful for everything he has achieved so far.
After stints in New York, London, New Delhi and Hong Kong, where he was Asia editor, Paul took over the Washington bureau at the start of the Trump administration and led it with distinction through an extraordinary period that included the pandemic, the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attacks.
We are advertising for a new coverage chief in D.C. and Paul will continue to lead the bureau until we announce a replacement.
Emma

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.