WSJ hires Insider’s Woodward as science reporter

Aylin Woodward

The Wall Street Journal has hired Aylin Woodward from Insider to be a science reporter.

She will start in December.

Woodward is a senior science reporter at Insider, where she covers climate change, earth science, anthropology and human evolution, and space.

She also covers the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on coronavirus variants, genetic sequencing, virus origins, and long-term immunity.

Before joining Insider, her work appeared regularly in New Scientist and the San Jose Mercury News, with bylines in Scientific American, Science, and BuzzFeed News. She is an alumna of the UC Santa Cruz Science Communication program, and graduated in 2015 from Dartmouth College with degrees in biological anthropology and government.

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.