LA Biz Journal hires WSJ’s Phillips to be its ME

Erica Phillips

Wall Street Journal reporter Erica Phillips has been hired by the Los Angeles Business Journal to be its managing editor.

On Twitter, Phillips wrote, “I’m sad to leave a great group of colleagues, but I’m excited to work with @LABJnews staff to find and cover important local stories.”

Phillips, who is based in Los Angeles for the Journal, specializes in covering the global supply chain — that is, everything from ocean container ships to freight transportation, warehouses and e-commerce shipping.

From 2012-15, she covered national news, reporting on economics, criminal justice, education and the environment.

She previously was a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily Journal.

Managing editor Henry Meier will remain interim editor of the paper.

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.