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WSJ hires Honan to be City Hall reporter

Katie Honan

The Wall Street Journal has hired Katie Honan to cover New York City Hall.

She starts June 4.

Honan previously covered Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Corona and the Rockaway peninsula for DNAinfo New York, a New York City local news site.

She covered neighborhood-focused news, from crime to real estate, and shoots her own photos and video.

She joined DNAinfo.com from WNBC/Channel 4, where she was the station’s first social media editor and also worked as a web editor at NBCNewYork.com.

While at NBC 4, Honan was part of breaking news teams that won a regional Emmy award for coverage of the Empire State Building shooting, and regional and national Emmy awards for its Hurricane Sandy coverage. They also won an Edward R. Murrow award for coverage of the 2012 storm.

Honan holds degrees from St. John’s University and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

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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