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WSJ’s Fritz to cover entertainment industry

Ben Fritz

Ben Fritz, who had been artificial intelligence editor at The Wall Street Journal, is becoming the publication’s entertainment industry reporter.

He will be covering everything in entertainment, broadly defined: Streaming, film, TV, franchises, and the intersection of media and tech, including AI.

He was previously West Coast editor for U.S. news at The Journal. Before that, he covered the entertainment industry for the Journal, as well as the Los Angeles Times and Variety. He reported and hosted The Journal podcast miniseries “With Great Power” and is author of the bestselling books “The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies” and “All the President’s Spin.”

Fritz has won awards from the Society for Advanced Business Editing and Writing and the Los Angeles Press Club and edited coverage that won awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and the New York Press Club.

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.

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