WSJ hires Rodriguez to cover Facebook, social media

Sal Rodriguez

The Wall Street Journal has hired CNBC reporter Sal Rodriguez to cover Facebook and social media.

Rodriguez has been at CNBC for the past three years.

Before CNBC< he was at Reuters, where he covered the enterprise software and cloud computing markets with a focus on Microsoft and Salesforce.

Rodriguez has previously covered the tech industry for Inc. magazine, the International Business Times and the Los Angeles Times, and he has contributed pieces to Vice, Digital Trends and the Federal Times, among others.

Rodriguez received his journalism training at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in Phoenix. There, he earned his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in journalism and completed a specialization in business reporting.

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.