WSJ hires Gittleson as host/producer of “What’s News” podcast

Kim Gittleson has been hired by the Wall Street Journal’s audio team in London as a host and producer of the morning edition of the “What’s News” podcast.

Gittleson comes from the BBC where she worked for seven years, most recently as a senior on-air reporter for BBC World Service radio and BBC World News TV.

She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School; a master’s from Columbia Journalism School, where she was a Knight-Bagehot fellow; and a bachelor’s from Harvard University.

She also lived in Romania for a year as a Fulbright scholar.

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.