WSJ hires Broughton to cover risk and compliance

Kristin Broughton

The Wall Street Journal has hired Kristin Broughton to cover risk and compliance.

Broughton was previously a reporter at American Banker, where she covered national and regional banking. She had been at that publication since May 2014.

She previously spent two years at Bloomberg Government as an analyst and also worked at CQ Roll Call as a researcher and a fact checker.

Broughton holds a bachelor’s degree from Macalaster College and a master’s degree in public policy from George Washington University.

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.