Ovide leaving Deal Journal for SF bureau

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE

Shira Ovide, the lead writer for Deal Journal, The Wall Street Journal’s online hub for news about corporate mergers and acquisitions, Wall Street and other financial issues, is leaving that post for a job on the West Coast.

Ovide will soon move to the paper’s San Francisco bureau, where she will cover Microsoft and other tech subjects, she tells Talking Biz News. Her start date is to be determined.

Ovide e-mailed, “My editor says you can feel free to mention they’re looking for good candidates to fill the Deal Journal lead writer post.”

Previously, Ovide was a media reporter for the Journal in New York. In this position she wrote about newspapers and magazines, media conglomerates and issues involving the press.

Until 2006, Ovide was a reporter with Dow Jones Newswires where she covered the media beat for nearly two years, and she was a reporter with the Dow Jones corporate filings bureau in Washington. She also interned at the Newark Star-Ledger.

Ovide graduated from Haverford College and has a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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.