WSJ hires Finnerty as deputy editor of live journalism

Katherine Finnerty

The Wall Street Journal has hired Katherine Finnerty as deputy editor of its live journalism events.

“Can’t wait to build on the team’s work and get cooking on our upcoming slate of incredible programming,” she wrote on Twitter.

Finnerty has been a senior producer at The Washington Post, where she has worked since April 2018. She also spent nearly two years at Reuters as a producer.

She also worked at the New York Times as a communications associate, where she assisted with development of PR plans for international, national and local conferences and events, from planning to execution for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, T Magazine, Luxury, DealBook and TimesTalks franchises.

She is a graduate of Smith 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.