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Washington Post hires WSJ’s Van Dam

Andrew Van Dam

Washington Post national economy and business editor David Cho, deputy business editor Zachary Goldfarb and economics and policy editor Patrick Reis sent out the following announcement on Wednesday:

We’re excited to announce that Andrew Van Dam will join Wonkblog to write about economics and policy through the lens of data and graphics.

Andrew is a data visualization reporter at the Wall Street Journal, where he has worked for five years. He started as an infographic designer in New York before coming to Washington 2 ½ years ago to write economics stories using data and visualization. He has done compelling stories and award-winning graphics about employment trends, socioeconomic disparities, trade and the global economy, politics and “the coming extinction of the video store clerk.”

A self-described “scrappy goofball from Idaho,” Andrew taught himself several key programming languages and is skilled in design, data analysis and cartography.

Before the Journal, Andrew worked at The Boston Globe, WGBH Boston, the Idaho-Press Tribune, among other places. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma and got his masters from the University of Missouri, where he studied computer-assisted reporting and data visualization. He and his wife live in Bethesda.

Andrew will start Nov. 20. Please welcome him when he arrives.

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.

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