Dow Jones hires Rosenbush for new CIO Journal

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Steve Rosenbush will join The Wall Street Journal as deputy editor of an upcoming new vertical targeting CIOs and other senior business technology executives – to be called CIO Journal and set to launch in the spring.

It will be available online as well as through most smartphone devices and an iPad app.

CIO Journal will be the latest in a series of premium content products from Dow Jones & Co., also including CFO Journal, Wall Street Journal Professional Edition, DJ FX Trader and DJ Investment Banker.

CIO Journal will be anchored by a team of reporters and editors managed by Rosenbush dedicated toward breaking news to help business technology executives make better strategic and planning decisions. It will also aggregate news from Dow Jones’ 2,000 journalists worldwide, as well as from sources from Factiva.

Deloitte LLP will sponsor a regular stream of CIO-centric content.

Rosenbush is an editor and reporter with experience covering technology, finance and economics. He spent the last year contributing to publications such as Institutional Investor, The Daily and Motley Fool. Previously, he led reporting teams at Portfolio.com, BusinessWeek, USA Today and Institutional Investor, where he was assistant managing editor for capital markets during the tumultuous period of 2008 and 2009. He has covered enterprise technology for AOL Daily Finance, and telecom for USA Today and BusinessWeek.

Rosenbush is “excited to be working with CIO Journal to cover the ways in which technology is changing the corporate world.”

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.