WSJ hires Mai-Duc in LA bureau

Christine Mai-Duc

Christine Mai-Duc has been hired by The Wall Street Journal to work in its Los Angeles bureau.

Mai-Duc will cover state politics, housing and the economy.

She covered California politics and breaking news for the Los Angeles Times. She had previously written for Capitol Weekly in Sacramento and The Times’ bureaus in Washington, D.C., and Orange County. Mai-Duc grew up in Sacramento and graduated from Cal-Berkeley.

In 2015, she was part of a team at the Times that was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist for covering the Virgin Galactic crash.

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.