Simons named deputy health and science editor at WSJ

John Simons

John Simons has been named deputy health and science editor for The Wall Street Journal.

He previously was energy editor for Europe, Middle East and Africa, based in London. He has also been transportation editor and deputy bureau chief of the management group.

Simons had been enterprise editor and business editor of the International Business Times. He previously was technology and media editor at The Associated Press in New York, where he oversaw coverage of technology companies, trends, product reviews, and consumer issues.

Simons has also been an editorial director at Black Enterprise, a staff writer at Fortune magazine where he wrote on science and technology, including biotech and pharmaceuticals, an economic policy reporter at the Journal from 1997 to 2000, and a senior editor at U.S. News & World Report.

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.