WSJ hires Novak as justice and judiciary editor

Viveca Novak

Viveca Novak has been hired by The Wall Street Journal as its justice and judiciary editor.

She most recently was investigative editor in the D.C. bureau of McClatchy.

A native of D.C., Novak is on her second tour with the Journal. She covered the Department of Justice for the paper in the mid-1990s before spending more than a decade at Time magazine, followed by tours at the Center for Responsive Politics and FactCheck.org.

She was a recipient of the Goldsmith Award for Investigative Reporting for stories she did on the Bill Clinton campaign finance scandals.

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.