Saul named page one editor at WSJ

Michael Saul

Michael Saul has been named a page one editor at The Wall Street Journal.

He started his new position on Monday.

“Looking forward to helping select and shepherd the biggest stories of the day onto WSJ’s A1, one of journalism’s most prestigious spaces,” wrote Saul on Twitter.

Saul has been a news editor in the Greater New York section for the paper. He previously covered the De Blasio administration for the paper.

Saul previously was the national correspondent for the New York Daily News and before that, was the paper’s City Hall bureau chief.

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.