Categories: OLD Media Moves

Dow Jones Newswires names new medical devices reporter

George Stahl, deputy managing editor for equities coverage at Dow Jones Newswires, sent out the following staff announcement on Tuesday:

I am pleased to announce the hiring of Anjali Athavaley as Dow Jones Newswires’s new medical device/healthcare reporter. Anjali starts Aug. 3 and will report to me.

For the past five years, Anjali has worked at The Wall Street Journal’s Personal Journal section. There, she wrote stories about personal finance, workplace issues, and home and consumer products, including some that appeared on the section’s front page.

Anjali is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. While in college, Anjali had internships at the Miami Herald, Washington Post and Houston Chronicle.

Please join me in wishing Anjali all the best in her new post.

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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  • Fascinating! But more interesting might be reason reporter is leaving much more visible spot at Personal Journal for post at Newswires. Can we do more here than just reprint press releases, internal memos and links to third-party stories? Whatever happened to old fashioned reportage?

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