Categories: OLD Media Moves

Stocks editor Lauricella leaves WSJ for Morningstar

Tom Lauricella, the stocks editor of The Wall Street Journal, has left the paper to become editor of Morningstar Direct.

At the Journal, Lauricella had been organizing stocks coverage, developing and mentoring reporters in his team, and he continued to report big stories affecting investors. He had worked at the paper for 14 years.

He was part of a team that won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2011 for covering the flash crash. He also covered the asset management industry and wrote a column for the now-defunct Wall Street Journal Sunday. Lauricella was also a bond market reporter for Dow Jones Newswires.

Morningstar Direct is a web-based software application that provides research about a variety of investments. The service provides current and historical performance data, portfolio holdings data, benchmark market indices data, as well as proprietary Morningstar statistics.

Morningstar Direct’s data libraries are accompanied by proprietary articles and commentary for a qualitative view. The platform includes also includes an extensive regulatory filings database.

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.