WSJ banking reporter Glazer joining paper’s politics team

Emily Glazer

Emily Glazer, a banking reporter at The Wall Street Journal, is joining the paper’s politics team to cover the 2020 election.

Glazer will cover the intersection of finance, business and politics and will be based in Los Angeles.

On Twitter, she wrote, “It’s been a great five years on the banking team but I’m looking forward to a new challenge. Excited to get started!”

Glazer joined the banking team in 2014 to cover J.P. Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo. She previously worked on the deals team’s bankruptcy beat, covering everything from TXU, the largest leveraged buyout ever to go bust, to the woes of Detroit and Puerto Rico corporate distress at RadioShack, American Apparel, Sbarro and Quiznos.

Before joining Money & Investing, Glazer covered consumer-products companies such as Procter & Gamble, Herbalife and Avon.

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.