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WSJ hires Freeman as science bureau chief

David Freeman (Photo by John Makely)

The Wall Street Journal has hired David Freeman as its science bureau chief.

He has been science editor at CBS News, HuffPost and, most recently, NBC News, where he created a vertical covering science, technology and the future.

A native of Arkansas and a Yale University graduate, freelanced has also freelanced extensively on science and health topics for news outlets ranging from Reuters to WebMD and Consumer Reports.

He’s completed several journalism fellowships, including ones at the Centers for Disease Control, the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He’s been a frequent moderator of scientific panel discussions at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and other institutions and is the former host of Science Insider, a weekly interview program at an NPR station in Connecticut.

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.

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