Reuters hires WSJ’s Kirkham as consumer enterprise reporter

Chris Kirkham

Wall Street Journal housing, hotels and casinos reporter Chris Kirkham has joined Reuters as its new consumer enterprise correspondent.

Based in Los Angeles, Kirkham was part of a team that broke the story of sexual misconduct allegations involving Steve Wynn, which led to Wynn’s resignation as finance chairman of the Republican National Committee and as chairman and chief executive of Wynn Resorts Ltd.

Earlier, Kirkham worked at the Los Angeles Times covering the California economy and labor issues.

Before that, he was at the Huffington Post, where his coverage of for-profit college chain Corinthian Colleges Inc.’s inflated job placement rates helped spark a federal inquiry that led to its bankruptcy.

His coverage of the California economy and of private juvenile prisons won awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. A native of Texas, Kirkham graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill 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.