Tangel tapped as WSJ aviation industry reporter

Andrew Tangel

Reporter Andrew Tangel has been named The Wall Street Journal’s aviation industry reporter.

The beat will include U.S. airlines and Boeing.

Tangel has been at The Journal since 2014. For the past two years, he has been covering manufacturing and companies including Caterpillar, Whirlpool and Harley-Davidson. Before that, he covered transportation for the Greater New York section.

He previously worked at the Los Angeles Times as a national business correspondent covering Wall Street, the Bergen Record in New Jersey, the Wilmington News Journal in Delaware and the Springfield News-Leader in Missouri.

A native of Louisville, Kentucky, he studied political science at DePauw University and business journalism at Columbia University. Tangel is also commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel.

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.