WSJ’s Lam among the recent layoffs

Bourree Lam, deputy coverage chief of The Wall Street Journal’s Life & Work coverage area, was among the recent layoffs.

She previousky was bureau chief of personal finance at The Journal.

Previously, she was senior editor for Work & Money at Refinery29 Inc. She was also an associate editor at The Atlantic and a blog and research editor at Freakonomics.com. She was also an assistant producer at WNYC Radio.

Lam was also metro editor at Time Out.

Lam graduated from the University of Chicago.

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.