Ballhaus joining WSJ’s investigations team

Rebecca Ballhaus

Rebecca Ballhaus, a reporter covering the White House for The Wall Street Journal, is joining the newspaper’s investigations team.

She will focus on government-related stories.

Ballhaus has been covering the White House and money in politics. During the 2016 election, she covered campaign finance in the presidential race.

She was one of the reporters who covered the use of money by President Donald Trump to silence critics, which earned her and her colleagues a Pulitzer Prize in 2019. “Trump’s Hush’ Money” covers Trump’s payment to Michael Cohen to cover up the story of Stormy Daniels.

She first joined the Journal in 2013 and is a graduate of Brown 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.