WSJ’s Torry to cover Western U.S. economy

Harriet Torry

Wall Street Journal reporter Harriet Torry has been tapped to cover the Western U.S. economy for the paper.

She will be based in Houston.

Torry has been covering the U.S. economy with a focus on consumers from the Washington, D.C., bureau.

Previously she covered the Federal Reserve. Torry joined the Journal in Frankfurt in 2010 as a financial reporter, before moving to Berlin to cover the German government and economy during the eurozone sovereign debt crisis.

She has been at the paper for 14 years and previously worked at Deutsche Welle.

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.