WSJ hires McCorvey to be reporter on multiple mediums

JJ McCorvey

The Wall Street Journal has hired J.J. McCorvey as a reporter for multiple mediums.

McCorvey has been a freelance journalist for the past two years.

He previously worked as a senior editor at One37pm and as a senior associate editor at Fast Company magazine, where he covered business and technology. McCorvey also worked at Inc. magazine for 18 months.

He’s a Tuskegee University graduate.

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.