NY Times hires WSJ’s Morris as director of journalism recruiting

Keiko Morris

The New York Times has hired Keiko Morris from The Wall Street Journal as director of newsroom recruiting.

She will start Nov. 8

Morris will lead the paper’s effort to bring journalists to the paper. Andrés Martínez, a Journal alum now on the Live team at the Times, described Morris as “a force” whom people are drawn to for her intelligence and infectious spirit.

At The Journal, Morris focused on recruiting, career development and newsroom culture. Prior to that, she was a commercial real estate reporter, writing about the economy and changes in the way we live and work through the lens of real estate.

Previously, Morris reported at Newsday and The Seattle Times. She graduated from Harvard and received a master’s in journalism from Stanford.

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.