WSJ economic policy reporter Davidson departing

Kate Davidson

Kate Davidson, who covers economic policy for The Wall Street Journal, is leaving the paper for a new opportunity.

“It’s hard to put into words how grateful I am to have worked with the smartest, kindest, most generous colleagues in the business for almost 7 years,” she wrote on Twitter.

Davidson has been covering the Federal Reserve and U.S. economy from The Journal’s Washington bureau.

Prior to joining the Journal in January 2015, she covered bank regulation and policy for Politico and American Banker. She has also worked for Congressional Quarterly and the Concord (N.H.) Monitor.

Davidson is a Boston University graduate.

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.