Lucchetti moving to WSJ publishing desk as a senior editor

Aaron Lucchetti

Aaron Lucchetti of The Wall Street Journal is moving to the publishing desk as a senior editor overseeing coverage of finance and markets

He has been the deputy banking editor.

“Looking forward to the great stories and talented journalists I’ll be working with in the new role!” he wrote on Twitter.

Lucchetti has been with The Journal for more than 20 years. He’s reported and edited on the tectonic shifts affecting big banks.

He also wrote about technology and electronic trading on Wall Street, including breaking stories on the consolidation of global markets such as the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

In 2009, Lucchetti and a group of Journal reporters won the Gerald Loeb Award in the Breaking News category for stories about the collapse of Lehman Brothers. The team of reporters also was named as a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize.

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.