WSJ’s Mattioli to write Amazon book

Dana Mattioli

Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli has signed a contract with Little, Brown to write a book about Amazon.com Inc., currently called “The Everything War.”

Mattioli is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a Gerald Loeb Award winner.

She previously spent six years on the mergers and acquisitions beat before moving to the Amazon beat two-plus years ago. Often working with colleagues in our deals group or biz/finance reporters world-wide, Mattioli delivered a relentless string of exclusives including on some of the biggest and most-important deals in recent years, such as CVS/Aetna, Shell/BG and Berkshire Hathaway/Precision Castparts.

She has also written leaders on the beat, including on Amazon’s impact on dealmaking.

Before joining the M&A team, she covered retail and distinguished the Journal with her work on Kodak, JCPenney and Orbitz.

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.