Ferek joins business and policy team in WSJ DC bureau

Katy Stech Ferek

Katy Stech Ferek has joined the business and policy reporting team in The Wall Street Journal’s D.C. bureau, where she’ll cover general assignment news with a focus on China, national security and foreign investment.

She covered corporate and personal bankruptcy for the paper since 2011.

Prior to that, she covered business news for The Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier and interned at Newsday, The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle and The Duluth (Minn.) News Tribune, her beloved hometown paper.

She is a Syracuse University graduate.

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.