WSJ hires AP’s Ken Thomas as a reporter

Ken Thomas

The Wall Street Journal has hired Associated Press reporter Ken Thomas to cover the Democrats and the 2020 election.

He will start in mid-November.

Thomas has been a reporter for the AP since 1999. He also worked at the Charleston Daily Mail in West Virginia for a year.

Thomas holds degrees from Georgetown University and the Columbia University 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.