OLD Media Moves

Zahir to focus on Instagram content for WSJ

Sorayah Zahire

Sorayah Zahir, a social media editor at The Wall Street Journal, is shifting her job to focus on Instagram.

She will be creating stories and posts for the Journal’s Instagram account.

Before joining the publication full time two years ago, Zahir was a digital media intern for the Journal.

Zahir was also a marketing and communications intern at the Texas Ballet Theater and a social media coordinator at the Allies in Youth Development organization.

She graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with a B.A. in communications in 2019.

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.

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