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WSJ hires Calfas to cover breaking news

Jennifer Calfas

The Wall Street Journal has hired reporter Jennifer Calfas to cover breaking news.

Calfas most recently has been a reporter for Time and Money magazines, covering workplace issues and women at work . She wrote breaking news and general news as part of Time’s news desk, with coverage spanning from the 2018 Winter Olympics to 2017s fidget spinner craze to education to pay inequity to California wildfires

She wrote Money magazine’s September 2018 cover story, which featured Skinnygirl CEO and “Real Housewives” star Bethenny Frankel.

Calfas also worked at The Hill.

She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she was editor in chief of the Michigan Daily.

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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