WSJ hires Corse to cover cybersecurity and election interference

Alexa Corse

Alexa Corse has been hired by The Wall Street Journal to cover election interference and cybersecurity in Washington.

She spent the summer of 2019 in London as the Daniel Pearl Memorial Journalism intern, and was an intern in the Journal’s D.C. bureau the two summers before that.

Corse graduated from Stanford University in June with a bachelor’s degree in political science. A Baltimore native, she has also worked as a fact-checker on the book “Political Risk” by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Stanford professor Amy Zegart.

She was a captain for the Stanford equestrian team.

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.