WSJ’s Wolfe moves to consumer economics beat

Wall Street Journal reporter Rachel Wolfe is now covering the consumer economy, looking at how people spent their money.

She previously was a consumer trends reporter.

Wolfe also was an associate features editor overseeing gear and gadgets coverage for the “Off Duty” weekend features section and writing the monthly “Fixer” column on the digital landscape. Before that, she served as an assistant editor.

She was also a pro bono consultant at Simone, a start-up aiming to combat workplace discrimination in New York. In this role, she helped developed Simone’s editorial and social media strategy. She was also a news and politics intern at Vox.com.

Wolfe has a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University.

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.