Guardian hires WSJ’s Chang as senior data reporter

The Guardian has hired Alvin Chang from The Wall Street Journal to be a senior data reporter.

He started on Tuesday.

Chang had joined the Journal earlier this year as a graphics reporter for a new digital magazine for young audiences.

Recently, Chang was with Vox, where he held the posts of first a graphics reporter and then a senior reporter. He was also a senior data editor at The Connecticut News Project and held the post of data journalist at The Boston Globe.

He also served as NHL writer and associate editor at ESPN.

Chang received his bachelor’s and master’s degree from New York 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.