WSJ hires Fontana as an equities reporter

Francesca Fontana

The Wall Street Journal has hired Francesca Fontana as an equities reporter.

She starts next week.

Fontana has been a tech reporter for TheStreet.com since February.

Fontana interned at The Wall Street Journal this past summer and had been freelancing for the business newspaper before joining TheStreet. She reported and wrote a feature story and produced a video for annual Women in the Workplace package.

Before that, Fontana worked at the Register-Guard in Eugene, Oregon, as a reporter while still attending college, and she also interned at The Oregonian in Portland.

She is a 2017 graduate from the University of Oregon, where she worked for The Daily Emerald and Flux Magazine.

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.