WSJ hires Baxter to be editor of “The Journal” podcast

Annie Baxter

The Wall Street Journal has hired Annie Baxter to be an editor for “The Journal” podcast.

Baxter previously was at American Public Media’s “Marketplace” radio show. She spent the last four years as a senior producer and editor. She was also a reporter for the show focusing on food and agriculture.

Baxter also worked for Minnesota Public Radio as a reporter covering the Minnesota economy, and at WBEZ in Chicago as a producer and arts reporter. She also worked as a general assignment business reporter for NPR.

Baxter teaches a narrative journalism class at Macalester College.

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.