How the WSJ podcast takes deep reporting to new audiences

Kate Linebaugh

The Women In newsletter from The Wall Street Journal interviewed Kate Linebaugh, co-host and executive editor of “The Journal” podcast, about her career.

Here is an excerpt:

WSJ: How did you get the job?
KL: I had worked at the WSJ for a good long time when this opportunity came up. It felt like an exciting way to take the WSJ’s deep reporting and storytelling to new audiences. So I went through a rigorous process that I likened to an obstacle course, going through all the steps of making an episode.
WSJ: What did you want to be when you were a child?
KL: I really wanted to work abroad. I was deeply curious about the world. And because of a book my dad bought me when I was 14, I wanted to go to Indonesia. After working and studying in Indonesia, I realized I wanted to be a journalist. I started out at an English-language paper in Jakarta, and worked through many different places before getting a reporting gig in Hong Kong for the WSJ.

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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.