Russolillo becomes deputy chief of WSJ speed and trending desk

Steven Russolillo

Steve Russolillo is becoming deputy coverage chief for The Wall Street Journal’s speed and trending desk.

He has been a strategy editor for business and corporate coverage at The Journal, focused on driving digital innovation and using audience metrics to improve the reader experience.

Previously, he was a foreign correspondent for The Journal based in Hong Kong, where he covered stocks and cryptocurrencies as a global markets reporter.

Before that, he was the “Ahead of the Tape” columnist for the Journal’s Heard on the Street team in New York.

Russolillo rejoined WSJ after working as a financial writer for Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Prior to that, he was a MoneyBeat reporter for the Journal and the lead author of WSJ’s daily markets newsletter. He has an MBA in finance from Baruch College in New York and a B.A. in history from the University of Delaware.

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.