WSJ hires Naughton to cover Fiat Chrysler, auto retailers

Nora Naughton

The Wall Street Journal has hired Detroit News auto reporter Nora Naughton to cover Fiat Chrysler, the auto unions and auto retailers.

She has been at the News since October 2017.

Naughton was previously a business development reporter at The Stamford (Conn.) Advocate. Naughton also covered City Hall for the Stamford paper, which she joined in May 2016.

Before that, Naughton worked as a freelance reporter for Automotive News, where she interned for two summers as well.

She’s a graduate of Eastern Michigan University, where she was editor in chief of the student newspaper, The Eastern Echo.

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.