WSJ hires Ansari to cover U.S. news

Talal Ansari

The Wall Street Journal has hired Talal Ansari to cover U.S. news.

Ansari has been at BuzzFeed since January 2015 as a national general assignment reporter with a daily beat focus on the Muslim American experience and proliferation of hate crimes in the U.S.

He previously worked as a fact checker at The Nation. He has also worked for Al Jazeera, the Investigative Reporting Program (IRP), The Nation, The Indian Express, The Los Angeles Daily News, and Mission Local in San Francisco.

Ansari holds a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and a master’s degree from Cal-Berkeley in 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.