Hobbs joining WSJ’s investigations team

Tawnell Hobbs

Tawnell Hobbs, a senior special writer at The Wall Street Journal, is joining the newspaper’s investigations team.

She has been at The Journal for five years.

Hobbs has been covering national K-12 education. She has spent more than 17 years covering education issues, ranging from student testing to financial disasters.

A native of Ohio, but a longtime Texan, Hobbs works from the Dallas bureau. She previously worked for the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

She is a graduate of the University of Texas-Arlington.

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.