WSJ hires Foldy for auto team in Detroit

Ben Foldy

The Wall Street Journal has hired Ben Foldy to join its auto team in Detroit as a reporter.

He starts next month.

Foldy has most recently been at Bloomberg News, where he covered finance and oil markets. He wrote an analysis of the one-year impact of 2017’s corporate tax reform on the biggest U.S. banks that was shared over 200,000 times and was Bloomberg’s third-most shared web story in the past year.

He also worked at The Financial Times last year.

Foldy holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from McGill University and a master’s degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

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.