Adams named WSJ’s deputy bureau chief for corporate

Russell Adams

Wall Street Journal business editor Jamie Heller sent out the following announcement on Monday:

Marcelo and I are thrilled to announce that Russell Adams is named deputy bureau chief in the corporate bureau. At the Journal since 2005, Russell covered sports and then the media industry before transitioning to editing, where he has overseen coverage areas in Money & Investing and Greater New York. Most recently he has been a story editor extraordinaire at 1211.
As an editor, Russell has periodically dipped back into reporting, authoring some of the Journal’s most-memorable stories. He wrote an a-hed about a group of men locked in a decades-old game of tag that is currently being made into a movie; a cover story about the enduring appeal of “The Shawshank Redemption,” and an a-hed about the curious popularity of Jack in the Box tacos.
A San Diego native, Russell has an undergraduate degree in Spanish from Georgetown University and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Loren, and six-year-old daughter, Leah.
Please join us in congratulating Russell on his new role.

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.