WSJ hires Fitzgerald as publishing editor

Dennis Fitzgerald

Dennis Fitzgerald has been hired by The Wall Street Journal to be a publishing editor.

He most recently has been at Proactive as a senior financial journalist and at the New York Post business desk as an editor.

He spent a decade at Bloomberg, where he edited coverage of the bond and currency markets during the financial crisis.

Fitzgerald has also worked at The Deal as a senior writer and Consumer Reports as a project editor. He was an editor at the Miami Herald when Hurricane Andrew struck South Florida in August 1992.

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.