WSJ hires Greene to cover Microsoft

Jay Greene

Seattle Times business reporter Jay Greene has been hired by The Wall Street Journal to cover Microsoft.

He will be reporting mostly on the cloud business of Microsoft, Amazon and other companies in Seattle and in Silicon Valley. Greene starts Feb. 1.

Greene has been at The Times in two stints, first joining the paper in 1998 to cover Microsoft when the Microsoft antitrust trial occurred and questions rose about its domination of the technology business.

He left The Times in December 1999 to open a Seattle bureau of BusinessWeek, where he covered Northwest technology businesses, principally – you guessed it – Microsoft. He was there for about 10 years. He left the magazine when Bloomberg purchased it to write a book called “Design is How it Works.” He worked for CNET from 2011 to 2013.

During his second stint at The Times, which began in July 2013, Greene tackled one of the toughest public companies to cover – Amazon.

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.