CNN hires WSJ reporter Ostrower as aviation editor

Jeff Ostrower

Jon Ostrower

CNN announced Wednesday that it has hired Jon Ostrower, an aviation beat reporter at the Wall Street Journal since 2012, as its aviation editor.

He starts Oct. 13.

In this new role, Ostrower will lead coverage of the business of aviation, primarily as a writer but also as an in-house expert.

As a teen in Boston, after getting his driver’s license, one of the first things Ostrower did was drive to Logan Airport to watch planes take off and land. He is a thought leader on the business of flying and has 61,000 Twitter followers.

Ostrower and his family live in Seattle, where he is surrounded by aerospace workers.

The aviation beat will focus on consumer centric stories about business, innovation and technology.

Ostrower will work closely with other CNN journalists who cover aviation, including Chris Isidore and Richard Quest of CNNMoney, Rene Marsh and Josh Gaynor of CNN Washington’s aviation regulatory beat, and the travel team under new hire Brekke Fletcher .

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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nautiflyer says:
October 4, 2016 at 1:34 pm
Check out the picture... His name is Jon!
BTW... Congrats Jon! Well done!
Susan Jenkins says:
April 10, 2017 at 10:41 pm
The guy is a bubblehead. He stands for the airline industry. When the Asian looking man was brutally dragged off of the United Airlines flight, all Ostrower said was, "passengers agree to these things in the fine print". That was the most idiotic thing you could say. CNN, get rid of this guy! There was no enlightenment on this issue, and NO, IT IS NOT LEGAL TO ASSAULT AND BATTER A PASSENGER TO GET THEM OFF THE FLIGHT. Ostrower is an idiot. Period.