WSJ hires Sebastian as spot news reporter

Dave Sebastian

The Wall Street Journal has hired Dave Sebastian as a reporter on the spot news desk.

He was a Dow Jones News Fund business reporting intern on the spot news desk over the summer.

Sebastian graduated from Boston University, where he studied journalism, economics and business. He’s interested in reporting on how economic and labor policies affect businesses.

Among the places he has interned are Innovation Leader, Bloomberg Law, WBUR and Voice of America.

Sebastian was born in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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.