WSJ’s Kiernan to cover California economy

Paul Kiernan

Wall Street Journal reporter Paul Kiernan has moved to Los Angeles to cover the California economy.

He previously has been covering the U.S. economy out of Washington, D.C., with a focus on immigration and labor. He also contributes to coverage of the Federal Reserve, politics and general news.

Before moving to Washington in 2018, Kiernan spent more than a decade as a correspondent in Mexico and Brazil for Dow Jones Newswires and the Associated Press.

Kiernan is a UNC-Chapel Hill 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.