WSJ hires Haggin to cover digital advertising

Patience Haggin

The Wall Street Journal has hired Patience Haggin to be its digital advertising reporter.

She will focus on advertising technology and data privacy as a member of the paper’s New York media and marketing bureau.

Haggin has most recently been freelancing from Naples, Italy.

Before that, she worked for The Journal’s Pro Venture Capital in San Francisco from December 2015 to September 2017. She also worked at The Recorder, American Lawyer Media’s newspaper for the Bay Area, from September 2014 to December 2015, where she covered law firm business.

Reach her at patience.haggin@wsj.com or on Twitter at @patiencehaggin.

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.