Categories: OLD Media Moves

Holmes to write new Personal Journal column

Emily Nelson, the editor of Personal Journal at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following to the staff on Monday:

I am delighted to announce that Elizabeth Holmes will take on an expanded new role as a senior style writer.
In her new position, Elizabeth will write a regular Personal Journal column on the marketing of style and changes in consumer habits, while also contributing to WSJ. Magazine, Off Duty, and other parts of the Wall Street Journal. The move reflects Elizabeth’s fantastic work finding new ways to tell deeply reported and virally popular stories.
As our entire newsroom works aggressively to build audiences on digital platforms, on social media and in video, Elizabeth has been an important pioneer leading the way, while continuing to deploy the substantial reporting skills she has built up in eight years here covering presidential campaigns and the retail industry, among other subjects. She will continue to report to me.
Please join me in congratulating Elizabeth on her new role.

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.