WSJ hires Telesca as deputy investing bureau chief

Jenna Telesca

The Wall Street Journal has hired Jenna Telesca as the deputy bureau chief on the investing team in New York.

Telesca spent the last decade covering the food industry, most recently as editor in chief of the trade magazine Nation’s Restaurant News, where her team reported on the impact of immigration reform and addiction on the restaurant industry.

In 2019, Nation’s Restaurant News won the Neal Award for overall editorial excellence, a top honor for B2B journalists.

She was also the editorial director of sister publication Restaurant Hospitality.

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.