WSJ’s Fritz becomes its AI industry editor

Ben Fritz

Ben Fritz has become artificial intelligence editor at The Wall Street Journal.

He has been the West Coast bureau chief for U.S. news.

Based in Los Angeles, he previously covered the entertainment industry for the Journal, as well as the Los Angeles Times and Variety. He is author of the bestselling books “The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies” and “All the President’s Spin.”

Fritz is a graduate of Swarthmore College.

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.